1108

Events

• May — Battle of Ucles: The Almoravids decisively defeat the Kingdom of Castile.
• Chichester Cathedral is consecrated.
• Saint Magnus becomes the first Earl of Orkney.
• In Pistoia, Italy, the Cathedral of San Zeno burns to the ground.
• Alexius I Comnenus and Bohemund I of Antioch negotiate the Treaty of Devol.
• Louis VI of France starts to rule.
• The Taira and Minamoto clans join forces to rule Japan, after defeating the warrior monks of the Enryakuji Temple near Kyoto.

Births

• Bohemund II of Antioch (d. 1131)
• Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (d. 1171)

Deaths

• July 29 — King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• Saint Alberic

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