1132 Deaths
Year 1132 (Roman numerals, MCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Levant * Summer – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (''atabeg'') of Aleppo and Mosul, marches on Baghdad (the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate), to add it to his dominions. He is defeated by the forces of Caliph Al-Mustarshid, near Tikrit (modern Iraq). Zengi flees and escapes, with the help of Tikrit's governor Najm ad-Din Ayyub (the father of Saladin), who conveys him across the Tigris, River Tigris. Europe * July 24 – Battle of Nocera: Rebel Normans under Count Ranulf II of Alife, Ranulf II defeat the Sicilian forces, led by King Roger II of Sicily, Roger II. Seven hundred knights are captured, and Roger is forced to retreat to Salerno. England * Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. Asia * June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000 houses and forcing many to flee to the nearby hills. ...
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