1207
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This article is about the year 1207.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1204 1205 1206 – 1207 – 1208 1209 1210 |
| 1207 by topic | |
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| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
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| 1207 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1207 MCCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1960 |
| Armenian calendar | 656 ԹՎ ՈԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5957 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -637–-636 |
| Bengali calendar | 614 |
| Berber calendar | 2157 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Joh. 1 – 9 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1751 |
| Burmese calendar | 569 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6715–6716 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年十二月初二日 (3843/3903-12-2) — to —
丁卯年十二月十一日(3844/3904-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 923–924 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1199–1200 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4967–4968 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1263–1264 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1129–1130 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4308–4309 |
| Holocene calendar | 11207 |
| Iranian calendar | 585–586 |
| Islamic calendar | 603–604 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3540 |
| Minguo calendar | 705 before ROC 民前705年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1750 |
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Year 1207 (MCCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
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[edit] Asia
- Before 1207 – Kosho makes Kuya Preaching. Kamakura period. It is now kept at Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto.
- Hōnen and his followers are exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings.
[edit] Europe
- November – Leeds, then a market town, received its first charter.
- Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.
- King John issues letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool.
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[edit] Markets
- First evidence of forced loans in Venice. This technic becomes the staple of public finance in Europe until the 16th century.[1]
[edit] Religion
- June 17 – Stephen Langton is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Innocent III.
[edit] Births
- September 30 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (d. 1273)
- October 1 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
- Henry II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1248)
- Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (d. 1231)
- Philip I of Savoy (d. 1285)
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 – Simon II, Duke of Lorraine
- June 17 – Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130)
- Amaury of Bene, French theologian and 'heretic'
- Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria
- David Soslan, King Consort of Georgia
- Xin Qiji, Chinese general and poet (b. 1140)
- Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (b. 1152)
[edit] References
- ^ Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review 15 (3): 506–562.
