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- This article is about the year 1138. For other uses, see 1138 (number).
| Years: 1135 1136 1137 - 1138 - 1139 1140 1141 | |
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Events
- Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- March 13 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- August 9 - Deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria killing about 230,000 people.
- August 22 - Battle of the Standard between David I of Scotland and the English. The Scots were defeated.
- Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
Births
- Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (died 1171)
- Casimir II of Poland (died 1194)
- Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (died 1179)
- Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (died 1193)
Deaths
- January 13 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1076)
- February 18 - Yaropolk II of Kiev, Prince of Pereyaslavl (born 1082)
- Antipope Anacletus II
- William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
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