| | PH : | Boleslav III, Duke of Poland |
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| | PH : | Magnus III of Norway invades Ireland and is killed | | PH : | Public Peace of Mainz for the Holy Roman Empire |
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| | PH : | Henry IV is captured by his son and abdicates | | DL : | Colonisation of eastern Germany begins |
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| | PH : | Henry IV dies; succeeded by Henry V, the last Salic emperor |
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| | PH : | Edgar of Scotland dies; succeeded by his brother Alexander I |
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| | PH : | Philip I of France dies; succeeded by Louis VI |
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| | LT : | Earliest record of a miracle play, Dunstable, England |
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| | PH : | Henry V crowned emperor in Rome |
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| | PH : | Henry V excommunicated by the Synod of Vienne |
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| | PH : | Balearic Islands conquered by Pisa | | PH : | Vladimir II Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev | | ED : | "Leges Henrici" codified | | RP : | Order of Knights Hospitalers of St. John, Jerusalem, founded | | RP : | St. Bernard joins the Cistercian Order |
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| | PH : | Stephen II, King of Hungary | | PH : | State of Chin established in northern China | | PH : | Florence becomes free republic | | RP : | Founding of Clairvaux with St. Bernard as first abbot |
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| | PH : | John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor | | RP : | Pope Galasius II |
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| | PH : | Charles the Good, Count of Flanders | | RP : | Pope Calixtus II, a Burgundian monk | | ED : | Bologna University founded |
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| | PH : | Peace between Henry I of England and Louis VI of France | | PH : | Disaster of the "White Ship"; the only legitimate son of Henry I of England drowned off Harfleur | | RP : | Full development of Scholastic philosophy | | DL : | The Chinese may have invented playing cards |
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| | PH : | The Ger. princes meet at Würzburg to work out a compromise between the pope and Emperor Henry V | | RP : | The Synod of Soissons condemns Abelard's teachings on the Trinity |
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| | PH : | The Byzantines exterminate Patzinak Turks | | PH : | Henry I creates earldom of Gloucester for his illegitimate son Robert of Caen | | RP : | Concordat of Worms settles investiture question |
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| | PH : | The Byzantine Emperor John II defeats Serbs | | RP : | First Lateran Council suppresses simony and marriage of priest | | DL : | Founding of St. Bartholomew's hospital, London |
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| | PH : | Alexander I of Scotland dies; suceeded by David I | | PH : | The Emperor John II defeats Hungarians | | RP : | William of Malmesbury: On the Antiquity of the Church of Glastonbury | | RP : | Pope Honorius II | | DL : | First Scottish coinage struck |
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| | PH : | Henry V dies; succeeded by Lothar of Saxony as king | | ED : | Tarnenari: O-Kagami, Japanese history | | M : | Beginning of troubadour and trouvère music in France | | ST : | Alexander Neckam: De utensilibus (earliest account of mariner's compass) |
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| | PH : | The Eng. barons accept Matilda, widow of Emperor Henry V and daughter of Henry I of England, as successor to Henry I GO ! | | PH : | Lothar III makes his son-in-law Henry the Proud (Welf) Duke of Bavaria, and (from 1137) Duke of Saxony | | DL : | Venetian commercial privileges in Byzantine Empire renewed |
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| | PH : | Alfonso I, King of Portugal | | RP : | Order of the Templars recognised by the pope | | RP : | Abbey of Holyrood founded by David I of Scotland |
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| | PH : | Roger II crowned King of Sicily at Palermo | | RP : | Pope Innocent I | | RP : | Anaceltus II, antipope; a distinguished scholar and diplomat, he is canonically more acceptable than Innocent II but fails to get secular backing because he is the son of a rich, converted Jew, founder of the influential Pierleani family |
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| | DL : | Henry I of France grants charters of corporate towns protecting commerce and industry |
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| | PH : | Lothar III crowned emperor by Pope Innocent II | | RP : | Diocese of Carlisle founded | | DL : | St. Bartholomew's Fair, Smithfield, London (until 1855) |
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| | PH : | The Emperor Lothar III invests Albert the Bear with the Nordmark |
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| | PH : | King Conrad, Frederick of Swabia, the King of Denmark, and the Duke of Poland submit to Lothar III | | PH : | King Henry I of England dies; succeeded by his nephew Stephen of Boulogne, a grandson of William the Conqueror GO ! | | PH : | Foundation of the Italian line of the House of Este |
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| | PH : | Matilda asserts her right to the Eng. throne | | LT : | Abelard: Historia calamitatum mearum, description of his love affair with Héloise |
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| | PH : | Gruffydd, Prince of North Wales, dies; succeeded by Owain the Great | | PH : | Louise VI of France dies; succeeded by Louis VII | | PH : | The Emperor Lothar III dies | | PH : | Antioch becomes a vassal to Byzantium | | RP : | Creation of bishopric of Aberdeen |
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| | PH : | Conrad III elected king, first of the Hohenstaufen line | | PH : | Boleslav III of Poland dies after dividing his realm among his five sons | | RP : | Pretended Messiah appears in France and Persia |
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| | PH : | Matilda lands at Arundel: civil war in England GO ! | | PH : | Bavaria falls to Austria | | RP : | Second Lateran Council ends schism | | RP : | Decretum Gratiani, summary of Eng. ecclesiastical law |
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| | PH : | Vladislav II of Bohemia | | RP : | Council of Sens condemns the heresies of Abelard |
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| | PH : | Matilda proclaimed queen at Winchester | | PH : | Geza II, King of Hungary |
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| | PH : | Manuel I, Byzantine Emperor | | RP : | Pope Celestine II | | DL : | Founding of Lübeck |
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| | PH : | The Seljuks take Edessa | | PH : | Republican regime established in Rome under Arnold of Brescia | | RP : | Pope Lucius II | | ST : | Robert of Chester: Liber de Compositione Alchemiae |
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| | RP : | Pope Eugene III | | PH : | Second Crusade proclaimed | | DL : | Bridge over Danube at Ratisbon completed |
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| | PH : | Nureddin, Sultan of Syria | | ST : | Antidotarium Niclai, a treatise on drugs |
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| | PH : | Crusaders perish in Asia Minor; failure of the Second Crusade | | ED : | Geoffrey of Monmouth: Historia regum Britanniae | | DL : | Moscow mentioned for the first time |
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| | PH : | Albert the Bear inherits Brandenburg | | PH : | Eric the Saint, King of Sweden | | PH : | Alauddin Husain, Sultan of Ghor, destroys the empire of Ghazni | | ED : | Founding of Paris University | | LT : | The Black book of Carmarthen, oldest Welsh manuscript | | M : | Troubadour music in southern France becomes organised | | ED : | Medical faculty at Bologna University | | DL : | Arabs in Spain manufacture paper |
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| | PH : | Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou dies; succeeded by Henry, his son by Matilda of England | | RP : | Simon Darschan: Jalkut, Jewish commentaries to the Old Testament | | VA : | The Golden Age of Buddhist art in Burma | | M : | New dance forms develop in Europe | | ST : | "Civitas Hippocratica" founded by 20 Salerno physicians | | DL : | The first fire and plague insurance (in Iceland) | | DL : | The game of chess arrives in England | | DL : | The Chinese use explosives in warfare |
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| | PH : | Conrad III dies and his nephew Frederick II Barbarossa becomes king | | PH : | Louis VII divorces his queen, Eleanor, who marries Henry of Anjou, afterward King of England | | M : | Ladies' strophes, the earliest Ger. "Minnelieder" |
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| | PH : | David I of Scotland dies; succeeded by his grandson Malcolm IV | | RP : | Pope Anastasius IV |
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| | PH : | Stephen dies; Henry II, King of England; from now till 1485 the House of Plantagenet rules England GO ! | | RP : | Pope Hadrian IV, Nicholas Breakspeare, the only Eng. pope | | ST : | Mohammed al-Idrisi: Geography, published at Palermo |
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| | PH : | Pope Hadrian IV bestows Ireland on Henry II | | PH : | Henry II abolishes fiscal earldoms and restores royal demesne | | RP : | Carmelite Order founded |
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| | PH : | War of the Jap. clans Taira and Minamoto | | PH : | Austria made a duchy with special privileges |
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| | PH : | Eric of Sweden conquers Finland |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa makes Vladislav II King of Bohemia | | DL : | Munich becomes centre of salt trade |
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| | RP : | The great Pope Alexander III |
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| | M : | Perotinus Magister (Pérotin) born | | PH : | Normans expelled from North Africa | | LT : | Tristan et Iseult, Celtic epic by Beroul and Thomas |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa destroys Milan | | RP : | Thomas à Becket elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
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| | M : | Magister Leoninus (Léonin) born | | PH : | Quarrel starts between Henry II and Thomas à Becket |
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| | PH : | Becket flees to France | | LT : | Gautier d'Arras: Eracle |
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| | PH : | Malcolm IV dies; succeeded by his brother William the Lion | | PH : | Byzantium allies with Venice against the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa |
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| | M : | The Song of Canute, Eng. ballad by a monk of Ely | | DL : | Assize of Clarendon orders erection of jails in all Eng. counties and boroughs |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa crowned emperor | | ED : | Oxford University founded |
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| | DL : | Milan rebuilt | | PH : | Bogolubsky sacks Kiev and assumes title of Grand Prince |
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