1127 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Conrad III establishes the Hohenstaufen dynasty when he is crowned antiking to the Holy Roman Emperor, Lothar II.
• First coalition of the Norman princes against Roger II of Sicily.
• The minaret of Kalyan is completed in Bukhara in present day Uzbekistan.
• Jurchen forces sack Song Chinese capital of Kaifeng, and begin more than a century of political division between north and south in China.

Births

• Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan

Deaths

• Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler of the First Crusade