1118 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Knights Templar founded
• Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem
• John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor
• Gelasius II succeeds Paschal II as pope

Births

• December 21 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general

Deaths

• January 21 - Pope Paschal II
• Baldwin, king of Jerusalem
• Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor
• Florence of Worcester, English chronicler