1114
Year 1114 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 7 - Emperor Henry V marries Matilda, 11-year-old daughter of King Henry I of England, at Worms. A political conflict breaks out across the Holy Roman Empire after the marriage, triggered when Henry arrests Chancellor Adalbert and various other German princes.
- Count Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona, joins the expedition to the Balearic Islands. A Pisan and Catalan fleet, supported by a large army, conquer Ibiza and Mallorca. They destroy the bases on the islands used by Moorish pirates to prey on Mediterranean shipping.
- Battle of Martorell: The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an expedition against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated in an ambush near Martorell.
- As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II enters the service of King Alfonso I of Aragon.
Asia
- Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments, for use in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong.
By topic
Earthquake
- November 29 - A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. From Antioch and Mamistra to Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks.
Religion
- The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire.
- Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded.
Births
- Al-Suhayli, Moorish scholar and writer
- Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician
- Dirk VI, count of Holland
- Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese nobleman
- Gebhard III, German nobleman
- Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator
- Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumbria
- Otto I, German bishop and chronicler
- Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona
Deaths
- February 24 - Thomas II, archbishop of York
- October - Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
- Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian
- Álvar Fáñez, Castilian nobleman
- Alypius of the Caves, Kievan monk and painter
- Erard I, French nobleman and crusader
- Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan historian
- Richard of Salerno, Norman nobleman
- Shahriyar IV, king of Mazandaran
- Tokushi, Japanese empress consort