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1130 CE, December 25

Roger II is crowned the first King of Sicily, on Christmas Day, December 25, 1130, by Antipope Anacletus II in the Palermo Cathedral, establishing the Kingdom of Sicily and becoming its first Norman ruler. The event unified his Norman territories in Sicily and Southern forming a powerful Mediterranean kingdom.

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