Asia

• Count Hugh II (du Puiset), in alliance with the Egyptian city of Ascalon, revolts against King Fulk V of Jerusalem, attempting to take Jaffa. Hugh submits to Fulk and is exiled for three years. While awaiting for a boat to Italy he is attacked by a Breton knight, but survives the attempted murder. Hugh retires to the Sicilian court of his cousin, King Roger II, who appoints him to the lordship of Gargano, where he dies soon afterwards.^[1]
• Mas'ud becomes sultan of the Seljuk dynasty in Hamadan.
• Yelü Dashi captures Balasagun from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, marking the start of the Qara Khitai empire (and its Kangguo era) in Central Asia.
• Wu Ge, Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels, and others with thirteen wheels.

Europe

Eastern Europe

• Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
• Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
• Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
• Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.

Mediterranean

• Ermengarde becomes Viscountess of Narbonne.
• Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
• Battle of Fraga: Castillan forces are defeated by Muslim troops. King Alfonso I (the Battler) is killed and succeeded by his brother Ramiro II as ruler of Aragon. In Navarre the nobility elects Garcia VI as Alfonso's successor.
• Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
• Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the Knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.^[2]

Scandinavia

• Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV Gille of Norway.
• Battle of Fotevik: Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated by the forces of Erik Emune.
• Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
• The House of Brandenburg is founded, when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.

Western Europe

• Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
• Much of Chartres, France, is destroyed by fire.
• Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
• The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
• Herman III (the Great), margrave of Baden, marries Bertha of Lorraine.

Culture

• May 13 – The Saint-Denis basilica, near Paris, is damaged by a fire. This will give the opportunity to the French abbot Suger to rebuild it in a new style, which will open the Gothic period of architecture.
• The University of Salamanca is established, in the Kingdom of León.
• Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
• The Japanese classic text Uchigikishu is written.
• Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.

Religion

• Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
• Malachy becomes archbishop of Armagh.
• The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
• The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
• Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
• Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
• Stephen Harding becomes abbot of Cîteaux Abbey.
• Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
• The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
• The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
• Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes abbot of Gottesgnaden.
• The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
• Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.