1211

Year 1211 (MCCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Cavalier Windmill at Langlade, Gard, first recorded in 1211

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s
Years:	1208 1209 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214

1211 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1211 MCCXI
Ab urbe condita	1964
Armenian calendar	660 ԹՎ ՈԿ
Assyrian calendar	5961
Balinese saka calendar	1132–1133
Bengali calendar	618
Berber calendar	2161
English Regnal year	12 Joh. 1 – 13 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1755
Burmese calendar	573
Byzantine calendar	6719–6720
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3907 or 3847     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3908 or 3848
Coptic calendar	927–928
Discordian calendar	2377
Ethiopian calendar	1203–1204
Hebrew calendar	4971–4972
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1267–1268
- Shaka Samvat	1132–1133
- Kali Yuga	4311–4312
Holocene calendar	11211
Igbo calendar	211–212
Iranian calendar	589–590
Islamic calendar	607–608
Japanese calendar	Jōgen (Kamakura period) 5 / Kenryaku 1 (建暦元年)
Javanese calendar	1119–1120
Julian calendar	1211 MCCXI
Korean calendar	3544
Minguo calendar	701 before ROC 民前701年
Nanakshahi calendar	−257
Thai solar calendar	1753–1754
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1337 or 956 or 184     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1338 or 957 or 185

Events

• April 21 – Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (begun in the 11th century) is consecrated, in the presence of King Alfonso IX of León.
• 25 June – Shams ud-Din Iltutmish defeats Aram Shah in the Battle of Delhi and become third Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate
• September 14 – The Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross are founded in Liège.
• October 15 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
• Livonian Crusade: Battles of Viljandi and Turaida – The Crusaders fail to conquer the Viljandi stronghold, but manage to baptize Sakala and Ugandi counties in southern Estonia.
• Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invade the Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty of northern China, aiming at this stage simply to loot the countryside. A Jin army is defeated and slaughtered at the Battle of Yehuling near Zhangjiakou, and another is beaten at Mukden, where the city is taken. Zhongdu is also besieged by the Mongol hordes.
• Byzantine–Seljuq wars: Battle of Antioch on the Meander in Anatolia – Forces of the Empire of Nicaea under Theodore I Laskaris defeat those of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm whose leader, Kaykhusraw I, is killed on the battlefield.
• The church in the French city of Reims burns down; soon after, construction begins on Reims Cathedral.
• King John of England sends a gift of herrings to nunneries in almost every shire, despite his status as an excommunicant.[1]
• The oldest extant double-entry bookkeeping system record dates from this year.

Births

• September 22 – Ibn Khallikan, Kurdish Muslim scholar (d. 1282)
• date unknown – Shinnyo, Japanese Buddhist nun
• probable
  • William of Villehardouin, prince of Achaea (d. 1278)
  • Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark (d. 1231)

Deaths

• June – Kaykhusraw I, Seljuk Sultan of Rûm (killed in battle)
• August 9 – William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, exiled Anglo-Norman baron (b. 1144/53)
• August 18 – Narapatisithu, king of Burma (b. 1150)
• December 14 – Princess Shōshi of Japan (b. 1195)

References

1. Warren, W. L. (1961). King John. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 172.