1201
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This article is about the year 1201. For the science fiction story, see 12:01 PM.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1198 1199 1200 – 1201 – 1202 1203 1204 |
| 1201 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1201 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1201 MCCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1954 |
| Armenian calendar | 650 ԹՎ ՈԾ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5951 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -643–-642 |
| Bengali calendar | 608 |
| Berber calendar | 2151 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Joh. 1 – 3 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1745 |
| Burmese calendar | 563 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6709–6710 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年十一月廿五日 (3837/3897-11-25) — to —
辛酉年十二月初五日(3838/3898-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar | 917–918 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1193–1194 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4961–4962 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1257–1258 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1123–1124 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4302–4303 |
| Holocene calendar | 11201 |
| Iranian calendar | 579–580 |
| Islamic calendar | 597–598 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3534 |
| Minguo calendar | 711 before ROC 民前711年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1744 |
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Year 1201 (MCCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- July 31 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
- John of England puts an embargo on wheat exported to Flanders in an attempt to force an allegiance between the states. He also puts a levy of a fifteenth on the value of cargo exported to France, and disallows the export of wool to France without a special license. The levies are enforced in each port by at least six men, including one churchman and one knight.[1] John also affirms this year that judgements made by the court of Westminster are as valid as those made "before the king himself or his chief justice".[2]
- The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Bishop Albert, who landed on the site of the town with 1,500 crusaders earlier that year.
- Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
- Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.
[edit] Births
- August 9 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
- October 9 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
- May 30 – Theobald IV of Champagne, Count of Champagne (d. 1253)
- Ladislaus III of Hungary, King of Hungary (d. 1205)
- Danylo King of Rus, 1st king of Halych-Volhynia (d. 1264)
- Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
[edit] Deaths
- March 21 – Absalon, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1128)
- May 24 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)
- July 29 – Agnes of Merania, queen of France and wife of king Philip II of France
- September 5 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- Bohemund III of Antioch (b. 1144)
