1210

Year 1210 (MCCX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s
Years:	1207 1208 1209 1210 1211 1212 1213

1210 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1210 MCCX
Ab urbe condita	1963
Armenian calendar	659 ԹՎ ՈԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	5960
Balinese saka calendar	1131–1132
Bengali calendar	617
Berber calendar	2160
English Regnal year	11 Joh. 1 – 12 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1754
Burmese calendar	572
Byzantine calendar	6718–6719
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3906 or 3846     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3907 or 3847
Coptic calendar	926–927
Discordian calendar	2376
Ethiopian calendar	1202–1203
Hebrew calendar	4970–4971
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1266–1267
- Shaka Samvat	1131–1132
- Kali Yuga	4310–4311
Holocene calendar	11210
Igbo calendar	210–211
Iranian calendar	588–589
Islamic calendar	606–607
Japanese calendar	Jōgen (Kamakura period) 4 (承元４年)
Javanese calendar	1118–1119
Julian calendar	1210 MCCX
Korean calendar	3543
Minguo calendar	702 before ROC 民前702年
Nanakshahi calendar	−258
Thai solar calendar	1752–1753
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1336 or 955 or 183     — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1337 or 956 or 184

Events

By area

Asia

• Emperor Juntoku succeeds Emperor Tsuchimikado, on the throne of Japan.
• Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, leads a Mongol campaign against the Kyrgyz.

Europe

• May – The Second Parliament of Ravennika is held at Ravennika in Central Greece, resulting in a concordat between the princes of Frankish Greece and the Roman Catholic clergy.
• July 18 – Battle of Gestilren: Former king Sverker II of Sweden is defeated and killed, by the reigning king Erik X.
• November 18 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III, for invading southern Italy in defiance of the Concordat of Worms.
• November 21 – King Eric X of Sweden is crowned, which is the first known coronation of a Swedish king. Shortly thereafter, he marries the Danish princess Richeza, in order to strengthen his relationship to the Danish king Valdemar the Conqueror. Valdemar used to support King Sverker II, but through the marriage, Valdemar makes peace with his former enemy, Eric.
• King John I of England raises £100,000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy; the operation is described as an “inestimable and incomparable exaction” by contemporary sources.[1]
• Livonian Crusade – Battle of Ümera: Estonian forces defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
• The citadel of the Acrocorinth in Greece surrenders to the Crusaders, after a five-year siege.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Gottfried von Strassburg writes his epic poem Tristan (approximate date).
• 1210–1211 – Shazi creates the Pen Box, from Persia (Iran) or Afghanistan (it is now kept at Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.).

Nature

• September 24 – Venus occults Jupiter (the last such occurrence until 1570).

Religion

• Pope Innocent III gives oral permission to Francis of Assisi, to begin the Order of Friars Minor.
• The church of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London is founded, as a priory of Benedictine nuns.

Births

• May 5 – King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
• June 24 – Count Floris IV of Holland (d. 1234)
• July 22 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, spouse of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)[2]

Deaths

• July 17 – Sverker the Younger, king of Sweden 1196–1208 (b. in the 1160s) (in the Battle of Gestilren)
• date unknown
  • Aonghus mac Somhairle, Norse-Gaelic chieftain
  • Jinul, Korean Buddhist philosopher
  • Halldóra Eyjólfsdóttir, Icelandic abbess
  • Qutb-ud-din Aibak, first Muslim ruler of Delhi
  • Maud de Braose, English noblewoman (b. 1155)

References

1. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).
2. Elizabeth Ewan, ed. (2006). The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 (Reprinted ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press. p. 400. ISBN 0-7486-1713-2.