1206
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This article is about the year 1206.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1203 1204 1205 – 1206 – 1207 1208 1209 |
| 1206 by topic | |
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| 1206 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1206 MCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1959 |
| Armenian calendar | 655 ԹՎ ՈԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5956 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -638–-637 |
| Bengali calendar | 613 |
| Berber calendar | 2156 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Joh. 1 – 8 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1750 |
| Burmese calendar | 568 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6714–6715 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年十一月廿一日 (3842/3902-11-21) — to —
丙寅年十二月初一日(3843/3903-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 922–923 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1198–1199 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4966–4967 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1262–1263 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1128–1129 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4307–4308 |
| Holocene calendar | 11206 |
| Iranian calendar | 584–585 |
| Islamic calendar | 602–603 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3539 |
| Minguo calendar | 706 before ROC 民前706年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1749 |
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Year 1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] Asia
- Temüjin is proclaimed Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, founding the Mongol Empire.
- Mukhali is appointed myriarch of the left wing of the newly reorganized Mongol army, and granted immunity for up to 9 breaches of the law.
- Qutb-ud-din Aybak, a Turkish mameluke from Central Asia proclaims the Mameluk dynasty in India, the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
[edit] Europe
- Theodore Lascaris is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Nicaea.
- The Livonian Brothers of the Sword, in alliance with the Semigallians, conquer Livs.
- King Valdemar II and Archbishop Andreas Sunonis raid Saaremaa Island, Estonia, forcing the islanders to submit. The Danes build a fortress, but finding no volunteers to man it, they burn it down themselves and leave the island.
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[edit] Arts and culture
- Sugar, an import from the Muslim world, is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account. Almonds, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg are also imported for royal banquets.[1]
[edit] Education
- Colchester Royal Grammar School founded.
[edit] Religion
- Foundation of the Order of the Friars Minor by Francis of Assisi.[2]
- A peasant named Thurkhill in England claims that Saint Julian took him on a tour of Purgatory. Thurkhill includes realistic touches including descriptions of Purgatory’s torture chambers, and is believed by Roger of Wendover, one of his society’s leading historians.[3]
- This year, Dominic de Guzmán claims to have received the Holy Rosary from the Virgin Mary.
[edit] Technics
- The Arab engineer al-Jazari describes many mechanical inventions in his book (title translated to English) The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.
[edit] Births
- Béla IV of Hungary (d. 1270)
- Güyük Khan, the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 – Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
- April – John X, Patriarch of Constantinople (alternative date is May)
- June 4 – Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France and regent of France
- Ikhtiyar al-Din Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, founder of Muslim rule in Bengal
- Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (b. 1162)
- Jamuqa, Mongol military and political leader
- Yang Wanli, Chinese poet (b. 1127)
