Years: 1115 1116 1117 - 1118 - 1119 1120 1121

Decades: 1080s 1090s 1100s - 1110s - 1120s 1130s 1140s

Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century

Events

• Knights Templar founded
• Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem
• John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor
• Gelasius II succeeds Paschal II as pope

Births

• December 21 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general

Deaths

• January 21 - Pope Paschal II
• June 5 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
• August 15 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (b. 1048)
• Baldwin, king of Jerusalem
• Florence of Worcester, English chronicler