1212

Year 1212 (MCCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (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:	1209 1210 1211 1212 1213 1214 1215

1212 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1212 MCCXII
Ab urbe condita	1965
Armenian calendar	661 ԹՎ ՈԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5962
Balinese saka calendar	1133–1134
Bengali calendar	619
Berber calendar	2162
English Regnal year	13 Joh. 1 – 14 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1756
Burmese calendar	574
Byzantine calendar	6720–6721
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3908 or 3848     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3909 or 3849
Coptic calendar	928–929
Discordian calendar	2378
Ethiopian calendar	1204–1205
Hebrew calendar	4972–4973
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1268–1269
- Shaka Samvat	1133–1134
- Kali Yuga	4312–4313
Holocene calendar	11212
Igbo calendar	212–213
Iranian calendar	590–591
Islamic calendar	608–609
Japanese calendar	Kenryaku 2 (建暦２年)
Javanese calendar	1120–1121
Julian calendar	1212 MCCXII
Korean calendar	3545
Minguo calendar	700 before ROC 民前700年
Nanakshahi calendar	−256
Thai solar calendar	1754–1755
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1338 or 957 or 185     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1339 or 958 or 186

Events

• July 10 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground; over 3,000 people die, many of them by drowning in the Thames. According to a contemporary account, "An awful fire broke out on the Southwark side of Lond. Bridge; and by some means, while it was raging, a fire broke out at the other end also, and so hemmed in the numerous crowds who had assembled to help the distressed. The sufferers, to avoid the flames, threw themselves over the bridge into boats and barges; but many of these sunk, the people crowding into them.".[1]
• July 16 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Christian kingdoms of Spain decisively defeat the Almohads, and the victory leaves the Kingdom of Castile in a difficult financial position, as numerous soldiers have to be paid by the treasury.[2]
• The Children's Crusade for the Holy Land is organised. There are probably two separate movements of young people, both led by shepherd boys, neither of which embark from Europe, but both of which suffer considerable hardship:[3]
  • Early spring – Nicholas leads a group from the Rhineland to Genoa and Rome.
  • June – 12-year-old Stephen of Cloyes leads a group across France to Marseilles.
• December – Frederick II of Hohenstaufen is crowned King of Germany, with the support of Pope Innocent III.
• The contemplative Order of Poor Clares is founded by Clare of Assisi.
• 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, in the Southern Carpathians (present day Romania).
• John of England impounds the revenue of all prelates appointed by bishops who had deserted him at his excommunication. He remains on good terms, however, with churchmen who stood by him, including Abbot Sampson, who this year bequeaths John his jewels.[4]
• The Banner of Las Navas de Tolosa is begun. It is a trophy of Ferdinand III of Castile, and will end up in the Museo de Telas Medievales.

• The city of Bergen op Zoom probably gets municipal rights.
• The fall of Argos to the Crusaders early in the year completes their conquest of the Morea. The city, along with Nauplia, is given to Otto de la Roche as a fief (Argos and Nauplia).

Births

Emperor Go-Horikawa

• March 22 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)
• Isabella II 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)
• Maria of Chernigov, princess regent of Rostov and chronicler (d. 1271)

Deaths

• February 29 – Hōnen, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 1133)
• April 12 – Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1154)
• April/May – Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (b. 1192; post-natal complications)
• July 16 – William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
• August 26 – Michael IV, Patriarch of Constantinople
• October 9 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (b. 1175)
• November 4 – Felix of Valois, French saint (b. 1127)
• December 5 – Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
• December 12 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (b. 1152)
• date unknown
  • Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England
  • Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (b. 1156)
  • Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor

References

1. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p26
2. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–671. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
3. Bridge, Antony (1980). The Crusades. London: Granada Publishing. ISBN 0-531-09872-9.
4. Warren, W. L. (1961). King John. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 169–172.