1108
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1070s 1080s 1090s – 1100s – 1110s 1120s 1130s |
| Years: | 1105 1106 1107 – 1108 – 1109 1110 1111 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1108 MCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1861 |
| Armenian calendar | 557 ԹՎ ՇԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5858 |
| Bengali calendar | 515 |
| Berber calendar | 2058 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 1 – 9 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1652 |
| Burmese calendar | 470 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6616–6617 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3804 or 3744 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3805 or 3745 |
| Coptic calendar | 824–825 |
| Discordian calendar | 2274 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1100–1101 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4868–4869 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1164–1165 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1030–1031 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4209–4210 |
| Holocene calendar | 11108 |
| Igbo calendar | 108–109 |
| Iranian calendar | 486–487 |
| Islamic calendar | 501–502 |
| Japanese calendar | Kajō 3 / Tennin 1 (天仁元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1108 MCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3441 |
| Minguo calendar | 804 before ROC 民前804年 |
| Seleucid era | 1419/1420 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1650–1651 |
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Year 1108 (MCVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- September – Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus and Bohemund I of Antioch negotiate the Treaty of Devol.
- The Taira and Minamoto clans join forces to rule Japan after defeating the warrior monks of the Enryaku-ji temple near Kyoto.
Europe
- Spring – The Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader sails from England on the Norwegian Crusade to Palestine. He repels a Muslim fleet near the Tagus river, he then attacks Sintra; Lisbon and Alcácer do Sal and finally defeats a second Muslim fleet further south.[1]
- May 29 – Battle of Uclés: The Almoravids decisively defeat forces of the kingdoms of Castile and León and roll back the advances of Reconquista; several towns recently captured by Christians are lost to the conquering Berbers such as Tarragona.[2]
- July 29 – Louis VI of France starts to rule on the death of his father; on August 3 he is crowned in Orléans Cathedral.
- Autumn – The Principality of Nitra ceases to exist, after Coloman, King of Hungary, deposes its last ruler, Álmos, Duke of Croatia.
- Pistoia Cathedral in Italy suffers a severe fire.
- First mention of the consuls of Bergamo indicating that the city has become an independent republic.[3]
By topic
Religion
- Chichester Cathedral is consecrated in England.
Births
- Bohemund II of Antioch (d. 1130)
- Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (d. 1171)
- Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1141)
Deaths
- July 29 – King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
- Saint Alberic
