1098

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1098 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1098 MXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1851
Armenian calendar	547 ԹՎ ՇԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	5848
Bengali calendar	505
Berber calendar	2048
English Regnal year	11 Will. 2 – 12 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1642
Burmese calendar	460
Byzantine calendar	6606–6607
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3794 or 3734     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3795 or 3735
Coptic calendar	814–815
Discordian calendar	2264
Ethiopian calendar	1090–1091
Hebrew calendar	4858–4859
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1154–1155
- Shaka Samvat	1019–1020
- Kali Yuga	4198–4199
Holocene calendar	11098
Igbo calendar	98–99
Iranian calendar	476–477
Islamic calendar	491–492
Japanese calendar	Jōtoku 2 (承徳２年)
Javanese calendar	1002–1003
Julian calendar	1098 MXCVIII
Korean calendar	3431
Minguo calendar	814 before ROC 民前814年
Nanakshahi calendar	−370
Seleucid era	1409/1410 AG
Thai solar calendar	1640–1641

Year 1098 (MXCVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• The First Crusade proceeds towards Palestine
  • February 9 – The crusaders defeat Ridwan of Aleppo.^[1]
  • June 3 – After eight months of the first Siege of Antioch, the crusaders take the city.^[2]
  • June 5 – Kerbogha, atabeg of Mosul, leader of the Seljuq Turks, arrives at Antioch, beginning the second siege a few days later.
  • June 28 – Kerbogha is defeated by the crusaders at the Battle of Antioch.^[3]
  • December 12 – After a month's siege, the crusaders take Ma'arra and massacre part of the population.
• July 14 – Donation of Altavilla: Bohemond I, the new crusader ruler of Antioch grants commercial privileges and the right to use warehouses (fondaco) and the church of Saint John to the Republic of Genoa. This marks the beginning of Italian merchant settlements in the Levant.^[4]
• August – The Fatimids retake Jerusalem from the Turks.
• The Byzantine Empire retakes Smyrna, Ephesus and Sardis.

Europe

• June or July – In the Battle of Anglesey Sound, a fleet led by Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, reverses an Anglo-Norman invasion of north Wales.^[5] Magnus also conquers the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man for Norway.

By topic

Religion

• March 21 – Cîteaux Abbey is founded by the Cistercian Order.

Births

• September 16 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic writer and composer (d. 1179)

Deaths

• January 3 – Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester
• July 31 – Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
• August 1 – Adhemar of Le Puy, papal legate
• December 1 – Domnall Ua hÉnna, Bishop of Killaloe
• date unknown – Poppo II, Margrave of Carniola
• probable – Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut

References

1. Abels, Richard Philip; Bernard S. Bachrach (2001). The Normans and their adversaries at war. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 92. ISBN 0-85115-847-1.
2. Rickard, J. "Antioch, crusader siege of, 21 October 1097-3 June 1098". Retrieved 4 January 2012.
3. Rickard, J. "Battle of the Orontes, 28 June 1098 (First Crusade)". Retrieved 4 January 2012.
4. Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia. Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 34. ISBN 88-8289-529-7.
5. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 56–58. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.