Aguda founds the Jin dynasty
The Jurchens rise against the Khitans and found an empire
The Jurchen chief Aguda proclaimed himself emperor of a new Jin ("Golden") dynasty. Within ten years the Jurchens destroyed the Liao, and in 1127 they took the Song capital Kaifeng and became masters of northern China.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1095 Council of Clermont — 20 years earlier
- 1122 Concordat of Worms — 7 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — 2 years earlier
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — 2 years earlier
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Omar Khayyam (aged 67)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 62)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 17)
- Yuri Dolgoruky (aged 16)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 4)
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem (aged 55)
- Henry I Beauclerc (aged 47)
- Lothair III (aged 40)
- Mstislav the Great (aged 39)
- Louis VI the Fat (aged 34)