1137

This article is about the year 1137.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1134 1135 1136 – 1137 – 1138 1139 1140

1137 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1137 in poetry

1137 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1137 MCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1890
Armenian calendar	586 ԹՎ ՇՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	5887
Bengali calendar	544
Berber calendar	2087
English Regnal year	2 Ste. 1 – 3 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1681
Burmese calendar	499
Byzantine calendar	6645–6646
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3833 or 3773     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3834 or 3774
Coptic calendar	853–854
Discordian calendar	2303
Ethiopian calendar	1129–1130
Hebrew calendar	4897–4898
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1193–1194
- Shaka Samvat	1059–1060
- Kali Yuga	4238–4239
Holocene calendar	11137
Igbo calendar	137–138
Iranian calendar	515–516
Islamic calendar	531–532
Japanese calendar	Hōen 3 (保延３年)
Julian calendar	1137 MCXXXVII
Korean calendar	3470
Minguo calendar	775 before ROC 民前775年
Seleucid era	1448/1449 AG
Thai solar calendar	1679–1680

Year 1137 (MCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Ethiopian Empire is established under the Zagwe dynasty.
• First commercial treaty between the Almohads and a Christian power. Genoa obtains trading rights in the ports of North Africa.

Asia

• In Song Dynasty China, a fire breaks out in the new capital of Hangzhou; the government suspends the requirement of rent payments, alms of 108,840 kg (120 tons) of rice are distributed to the poor, and items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are exempt from government taxation.

Europe

• A fleet of thirty-seven Almoravid ships attacks the coasts of Southern Italy under Norman rule.
• Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X.
• Rochester Cathedral is severely damaged by a fire, but is soon rebuilt.

Births

• Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)
• Amalric I of Jerusalem
• Walter Map, Welsh historian (d. 1209)

Deaths

• March 8 – Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (b. c. 1067)
• April 9 – William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
• June 23 – Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz
• August 1 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• September 18 – Eric II of Denmark
• October 30 – Sergius VII, Duke of Naples
• December – Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1075)
• date unknown –
  • Ramanuja, Indian philosopher (b. 1017)
  • Pons, Count of Tripoli (b. c.1098)
  • Antipope Gregory VIII
  • Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd
• probable – Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Byzantine soldier (b. 1062)