In the year AD 1124... - At the Battle of Bourgtheroulde forces
loyal to English king Henry I decisively defeat a numerically
superior force of Norman rebels fighting in the name of William
Clito, in one of the earliest battles to show the utility of
archers versus horsemen. - The Crusades continue in the Holy
Land. Venetian crusaders conquer Tyre and are awarded title to
one third of its territory and important trading privileges.
Meanwhile Baldwin II, the crusader king of Jerusalem, is
released by the Ortoqids after almost a year of captivity, and
almost immediately lays siege to the city of Allepo, but will be
driven off early in 1125 by the arrival on the scene of il-
Bursuqi, the Seljuk atabeg of Mosul. - Irish warlord
Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht, erects
a small fort called Dún Bhun na Gaillimhe ("Fort at the Mouth of
the Gaillimh River"), which will eventually grow to become the
modern-day city of Galway, Ireland. - Japanese aristocrat
Fujiwara no Kiyohira constructs the magn