What is 1108?
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Year nav|1108}} {{Year in various calendars|1108}} {{Year article header|1108}} == Events == <onlyinclude> === By area === ==== Asia ==== * The [[Taira clan|Taira]] and [[Minamoto clan|Minamoto]] clans join forces to rule [[Japan]] after defeating the warrior monks of the [[Enryaku-ji|Enryakuji Temple]] near [[Kyoto]]. * [[Alexius I Comnenus]] and [[Bohemund I of Antioch]] negotiate the [[Treaty of Devol]]. ==== Europe ==== * May &ndash; [[Battle of Uclés (1108)|Battle of Uclés]]: The [[Almoravids]] defeat the [[Kingdom of Castile]] and roll back the advances of [[Reconquista]]; several towns recently captured by Christians are lost to the conquering Berbers such as [[Tarragona]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=McGrank|first=Lawrence|title=Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55|journal=Journal of Medieval History|year=1981|volume=7|issue=1|pages=67–82|doi=10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-4181%2881%2990036-1}}</ref> * [[Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney|Saint Magnus]] becomes the first Earl of [[Orkney]]. * In [[Pistoia]], [[Italy]], the [[Pistoia Cathedral|Cathedral of San Zeno]] burns to the ground. * [[Louis VI of France]] starts to rule. * First mention of the consuls of [[Bergamo]] indicating that the city has become an independent republic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kleinhenz|first=Christopher|title=Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia, Volume 1|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0-415-93930-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1piMMqjAf1MC&q=1101+sicile}}</ref> === By topic === ==== Religion ==== * [[Chichester Cathedral]] is consecrated. </onlyinclude> == Births == * [[Bohemund II of Antioch]] (d. [[1131]]) * [[Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut]] (d. [[1171]]) * [[Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria]] (d. [[1141]]) == Deaths == * [[July 29]] &ndash; King [[Philip I of France]] (b. [[1052]]) * [[Saint Alberic]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1108}} [[Category:1108| ]]