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.
June – Toghtekin, the atabeg of Damascus, sends envoys to the Crusaders encampment to negotiate peace. After lengthy and difficult discussions it is 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.
August 11 – A solar eclipse takes place over northern Europe, after Sigurd the Crusader, King of Norway, leads the Kalmare ledung, a naval attack on Kalmar, in order to Christianize the region of Småland. A historian later notes that Sigurd's crusade happened in the summer before "the great darkness".
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.: 113 Baldwin also promises to assist Timurtash against the Bedouin warlord, Dubais ibn Sadaqa.: 113 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.: 115 Timurtash asks for help from his brother Suleiman of Mayyafariqin, but the two brothers fail to get along, leaving Aleppo vulnerable.
October – December
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 5 – Gutierre Fernández de Castro and his wife Toda receive half of the lands owned by her grandmother, Teresa, at Quintanilla Rodano, Quintana Fortuno and Sotopalacios.
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