1231
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| Years: 1228 1229 1230 - 1231 - 1232 1233 1234 |
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| Decades: 1200s 1210s 1220s - 1230s - 1240s 1250s 1260s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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| 1231 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1231 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1231 MCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1984 |
| Armenian calendar | 680 ԹՎ ՈՁ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -613 – -612 |
| Berber calendar | 2181 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1775 |
| Burmese calendar | 593 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6739 – 6740 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年十一月廿七日 (3867/3927-11-27) — to —
辛卯年十二月初七日(3868/3928-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 947 – 948 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1223 – 1224 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4991 – 4992 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1286 – 1287 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1153 – 1154 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4332 – 4333 |
| Holocene calendar | 11231 |
| Iranian calendar | 609 – 610 |
| Islamic calendar | 628 – 629 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3564 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1774 |
[edit] Events
- April 9 — After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou, Song Dynasty, China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day. Fighting the flames is difficult due to limited visibility. When the fires are extinguished, it is discovered that an entire district of some 10,000 houses in the southeast of the city were consumed by the flames.
- Ardengus becomes bishop of Florence.
- Emperor Frederick II promulgates the Constitutions of Melfi (also known as Liber Augustalis), a collection of laws for Sicily.
- Llywelyn the Great launches a campaign against the Norman lordships in Wales.
- Mongol troops cross the Yalu River into Korea, then under the Goryeo Kingdom.
[edit] Births
- March 17 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
- Guo Shoujing, Chinese astronomer and mathematician
- John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey (d. 1304)
- Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore (d. 1282)
[edit] Deaths
- April 6 - William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
- June 13 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
- November 6 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
- November 17 - Saint Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207)
- Abd-el-latif, Arab physician and traveller
