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Year 1124 (MCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1124th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 124th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 12th century, and the 5th year of the 1120s decade.

January – June

 * January – n January 1124, Balak and Toghtekin, the Burid atabeg of Damascus, breached Azaz's defenses, but were repulsed by Crusader
 * February 15 – the Venetians and the Franks began the siege of Tyre. The seaport of Tyre, now in Lebanon, was part of the territory of Toghtekin, the atabeg of Damascus. The Latin army was led by the Patriarch of Antioch, the doge of Venice, Pons, Count of Tripoli and William de Bury, the king's constable.
 * February 29 – Vasylko Rostyslavych
 * March 19 –Volodar of Peremyshl
 * March 26 – Henry I of England's forces defeat Norman rebels at the Battle of Bourgthéroulde.
 * April 27 – David I succeeds Alexander I, to become King of Scotland.
 * May 6 – Belek Ghazi, Bey of Artuqids is hit and killed by an arrow during the siege of Manbij on 6 May 1124,
 * June –
 * June 6 –German missionary Otto of Bamberg carries out the first baptism on his mission to convert residents of the Duchy of Pomerania (now in Poland) to Christianity, carrying out a baptism in Pyritz (now Pyrzyce)
 * Toghtekin, the atabeg of Damascus, sent envoys in June 1124 to negotiate peace. After lengthy and difficult discussions it was agreed that the terms of surrender would include letting those who wanted to leave the city to take their families and property with them, while those who wanted to stay would keep their houses and possessions. This was unpopular with some of the crusaders, who wanted to loot the city.

July – December

 * July 7 (June 29 O.S.)(14 Jumada 518) AH &ndash ; Tyre falls to the Crusaders.
 * August 11 – The Kalmare ledung (Swedish for "sea-borne expedition to Kalmar"[1]) was a sea-based crusade or leidang led by the Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader performed in 1123 to Christianize the region of Småland The crusade can be dated relatively accurately with information from Snorri Sturluson stating that the crusade must have taken place in the summer before the "great darkness". On 11 August 1124, a solar eclipse occurred
 * August 29 – Baldwin II of Jerusalem is released by Timurtash. After negotiations are made, with the Crusaders paying 80,000 dinars and to cede Atarib, Zardana, Azaz and other Antiochene fortresses to Timurtash. Baldwin also promises to assist Timurtash against the Bedouin warlord, Dubais ibn Sadaqa. Once 20,000 dinars are paid and a dozen hostages (including Baldwin's youngest daughter Ioveta and Joscelin's son Joscelin II) are handed over to Timurtash to secure the payment of the balance, Baldwin is released.
 * September –
 * After agreeing to help Timurtash fight a rival, the Amir Dubays bin Sadaqa, as a condition of being released, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem enters into an alliance with Dubays and promises him parts of the territory of Aleppo.
 * Timurtash asked for help from his brother Suleiman of Mayyafariqin in September 1124, but the two brothers did not get along and Aleppo was left to its own fate.
 * October 6 – The siege of Aleppo by Baldwin II of Jerusalem and his allies begins. The fortress surrenders after less than four months, on January 25.
 * November –
 * On November 1, 1124, Beltrán de Risnel confirmed two more charters of Alfonso VII during the reign of Queen Urraca of León and Castile
 * On 5 November 1124, Gutierre Fernández de Castro and his wife Toda received half of the lands owned by her grandmother, Teresa, at Quintanilla Rodano, Quintana Fortuno and Sotopalacios
 * On 19 November 1124, Archbishop Adelbert I of Mainz acknowledged for Abbot Odo of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims the latter's ownership, within the Reims holdings around Kusel, of the Church of Kusel with its chapels of ease at Altenglan, Konken and Pfeffelbach.
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 * December 9 – History of the Knights Hospitaller in the Levant Raymond du Puy of France formally succeeds Gerard as the second Grand Master of the Knights-- His first official act was recorded on 9 December 1124.
 * December 16 – Teobaldo Boccapecci is elected the new Pope, three days after the death of Pope Callixtus II. Boccapecci takes the name Celestine II, but the Frangipani family attacks the investment ceremony and Boccapecci is injured. He resigns before being enthroned in order to avoid schism.
 * December 21 – Lamberto Scannabecchi is elected in the 1124 papal election and takes the name Pope Honorius II.


 * Gaufrid is consecrated as the first Abbot of Dunfermline Abbey.
 * The Dun Beal Gallimhe is erected by King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair of Connacht.
 * In Ireland, Saint Malachy, the great reformer of the Church, is made a bishop.
 * (Approximate date) – The High School of Glasgow is founded as the choir school of Glasgow Cathedral, in Scotland.

North America

 * Arnald becomes the first Bishop of Greenland.

Births

 * Ottokar III of Styria, Margrave (d. 1164)
 * Possible date – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine, queen consort successively of France and England, and patron of the arts (d. 1204)

Deaths

 * February 2 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. c. 1064)
 * March 15 – Ernulf, Bishop of Rochester (b. c. 1040)
 * April 23 – King Alexander I of Scotland (b. c. 1078)
 * June 12 – Hasan-i Sabbah, founder of the Nizari Ismaili state (b. c. 1250)
 * December 13 – Pope Callixtus II, Burgundian-born Catholic religious leader (b. c. 1065)
 * Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (b. 1053)