1212
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| Years: 1209 1210 1211 - 1212 - 1213 1214 1215 |
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| Decades: 1180s 1190s 1200s - 1210s - 1220s 1230s 1240s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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[edit] Events
| 1212 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1212 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1212 MCCXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1965 |
| Armenian calendar | 661 ԹՎ ՈԿԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -632 – -631 |
| Berber calendar | 2162 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1756 |
| Burmese calendar | 574 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6720 – 6721 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛未年十一月廿六日 (3848/3908-11-26) — to —
壬申年十二月初七日(3849/3909-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 928 – 929 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1204 – 1205 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4972 – 4973 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1267 – 1268 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1134 – 1135 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4313 – 4314 |
| Holocene calendar | 11212 |
| Iranian calendar | 590 – 591 |
| Islamic calendar | 608 – 609 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3545 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1755 |
- July 10 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground, Over 3,000 people died.
- July 17 - Battle of Navas de Tolosa: The Christian kingdoms of Spain decisively defeat the Almohads.
- December - Frederick II of Hohenstaufen is crowned King of Germany with the support of Pope Innocent III.
- The Children's Crusade, led by 12-year-old Stephen of Cloyes, sets out for the Holy Land from France.
- Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain.
- In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese prose.
- Bran Castle is erected by the Teutonic Knights.
[edit] Births
- March 22 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)
- Yolande of Jerusalem (d. 1228)
- Malatesta da Verucchio, Italian condottiero, founder of the Malatesta family (d. 1312)
- Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants (d. 1272)
[edit] Deaths
- March 26 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
- April 12 - Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1154)
- October 9 - Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
- November 4 - Felix of Valois, French saint (b. 1127)
- December 12 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (b. 1152)
- Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
- William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
- Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
- Margaret of Huntingdon, eldest daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife (b. 1180)
- Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (b. 1192)
- Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England
- Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (b. 1156)
- Hōnen, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 1133)
- Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor
