What Happened in 1131

Major Events

  • Oct 25 Crowning of Louis VII the Young, King of France

Born in 1131

  • Jan 14 Valdemar I of Denmark, King of Denmark (1146–82), born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (d. 1182)

Who Died in 1131

  • Mar 1 Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies at 42
  • Apr 30 Adjutor, French Catholic Saint and knight in the First Crusade, patron saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims
  • Aug 21 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
  • Dec 4 Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician (cubic equations), astronomer (Jalali calendar, basis of the Persian calendar), poet (quatrains), and philosopher, dies at 83