1219

Year 1219 (MCCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (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:	1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222

1219 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1219 MCCXIX
Ab urbe condita	1972
Armenian calendar	668 ԹՎ ՈԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	5969
Balinese saka calendar	1140–1141
Bengali calendar	626
Berber calendar	2169
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 3 – 4 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1763
Burmese calendar	581
Byzantine calendar	6727–6728
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3915 or 3855     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3916 or 3856
Coptic calendar	935–936
Discordian calendar	2385
Ethiopian calendar	1211–1212
Hebrew calendar	4979–4980
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1275–1276
- Shaka Samvat	1140–1141
- Kali Yuga	4319–4320
Holocene calendar	11219
Igbo calendar	219–220
Iranian calendar	597–598
Islamic calendar	615–616
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 7 / Jōkyū 1 (承久元年)
Javanese calendar	1127–1128
Julian calendar	1219 MCCXIX
Korean calendar	3552
Minguo calendar	693 before ROC 民前693年
Nanakshahi calendar	−249
Thai solar calendar	1761–1762
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1345 or 964 or 192     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1346 or 965 or 193

Events

By area

Africa

• November 5 – Fifth Crusade: Damietta, Egypt falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
• Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade.
• The Egyptian city of Al Mansurah is founded.

Asia

• By letter, Genghis Khan summons Qiu Chuji (Chongchan) to visit him, to advise him on the medicine of immortality (the Philosopher's Stone).
• In Japan, The Hōjō clan, vassals of the shōgun, reduce him to a figurehead.
• The Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia begins with the Mongols attacking Otrar. The Governor of the city, Inalchuq, who oversaw the execution of an earlier Mongol caravan, is captured and executed.

Europe

• June 15 – Livonian Crusade: Danish crusaders, led by King Valdemar II, conquer Tallinn in the Battle of Lyndanisse. What is to become the flag of Denmark (Dannebrog) allegedly falls from the sky during that battle. Their stronghold in Tallinn will help the Danes conquer the entirety of northern Estonia.
• Twenty-four Lithuanian dukes and nobles purportedly sign a peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia, stating a common cause against invading Christian Crusaders.[1]
• The Serbian Orthodox Church becomes autocephalous.
• Upon the death of Aymeric of Saint Maur, Alan Marcell becomes master of the Knights Templar in England.[2]
• The East Frisian island of Burchana is broken up in a North Sea flood.

By topic

Technology

• The windmill is first introduced to China, with the travels of Yelü Chucai to Transoxiana.
• Mina'i ware pottery production in Persia ceases as a result of the Mongol conquest.

Births

• Christopher I of Denmark (d. 1259)
• Guillaume de Gisors, Grand Master of the fictional Priory of Sion (d. 1307)
• Ariq Boke, the youngest son of Tolui and the 5th Khagan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1266)

Deaths

• February 13 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (b. 1192)
• May 2 (or May 5) – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
• May 14 – William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1146)
• June 17 – David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon (b.c. 1143)
• August – Yolanda of Flanders, Latin Empress regent of Constantinople (b. 1175)
• November 3 – Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel (born c. 1170)
• Raymond-Roupen of Antioch (b. 1199)
• John de Courcy, knight and Earl of Ulster (b. 1160)
• Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople

References

1. Butkevičienė, Birutė; Gricius, Vytautas (July 2003). "Mindaugas — Lietuvos karalius". Mokslas ir gyvenimas (in Lithuanian). 7 (547). Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved May 30, 2007.
2. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).