1211
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This article is about the year 1211.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1180s 1190s 1200s – 1210s – 1220s 1230s 1240s |
| Years: | 1208 1209 1210 – 1211 – 1212 1213 1214 |
| 1211 by topic | |
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| 1211 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1211 MCCXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1964 |
| Armenian calendar | 660 ԹՎ ՈԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5961 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -633–-632 |
| Bengali calendar | 618 |
| Berber calendar | 2161 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Joh. 1 – 13 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1755 |
| Burmese calendar | 573 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6719–6720 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚午年十二月十五日 (3847/3907-12-15) — to —
辛未年十一月廿五日(3848/3908-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 927–928 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1203–1204 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4971–4972 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1267–1268 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1133–1134 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4312–4313 |
| Holocene calendar | 11211 |
| Iranian calendar | 589–590 |
| Islamic calendar | 607–608 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3544 |
| Minguo calendar | 701 before ROC 民前701年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1754 |
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Year 1211 (MCCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- John of England sends a gift of herrings to nunneries in almost every shire despite his status as an excommunicant.[1]
- The oldest extant double-entry bookkeeping system record dates from this year.
- September 14 – Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross are founded.
- October 15 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: the Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
- Troops led by Estonian resistance fighter Lembitu of Lehola destroy a garrison of missionaries in the historical Estonian region of Sakala, and raid the Russian town of Pskov.
- Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invade Jin China, aiming at this stage simply to loot the countryside. A Chinese army is defeated and slaughtered at the Badger's Mount Campaign near Zhangjiakou and another is beaten at Mukden, where the city is taken. Beijing is also besieged by the Mongol hordes.
- The church in the French city of Reims burns down; soon after, construction begins on the Notre Dame de Reims Cathedral.
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[edit] References
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 172
