1217
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This article is about the year 1217.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1180s 1190s 1200s – 1210s – 1220s 1230s 1240s |
| Years: | 1214 1215 1216 – 1217 – 1218 1219 1220 |
| 1217 by topic | |
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| 1217 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1217 MCCXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1970 |
| Armenian calendar | 666 ԹՎ ՈԿԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5967 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -627–-626 |
| Bengali calendar | 624 |
| Berber calendar | 2167 |
| English Regnal year | 1 Hen. 3 – 2 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1761 |
| Burmese calendar | 579 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6725–6726 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年十一月廿二日 (3853/3913-11-22) — to —
丁丑年十二月初二日(3854/3914-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 933–934 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1209–1210 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4977–4978 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1273–1274 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1139–1140 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4318–4319 |
| Holocene calendar | 11217 |
| Iranian calendar | 595–596 |
| Islamic calendar | 613–614 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3550 |
| Minguo calendar | 695 before ROC 民前695年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1760 |
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Year 1217 (MCCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] Asia
- Mukhali is back in Genghis Khan's camp in Mongolia and receives the hereditary title of prince, a golden seal, and a white standard with 9 tails and a black crescent in the middle. He is appointed commander in chief of operations in North China.
- The Fifth Crusade reaches the Holy Land
[edit] Europe
- April 9 – Peter of Courtenay is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople at Rome, by Pope Honorius III.
- September 21 – Battle of St. Matthew's Day: The Germans defeat the Estonians.
- November] – Castile: The former regent of the now deceased young Henry I of Castile, Alvaro Núñez de Lara, is captured and forced to relinquish all his castles.[1]
- The Kingdom of Serbia is founded.
- Alcácer do Sal is reconquered by the troops of the Portuguese king Afonso II.[2]
- In England, a decree establishes that only Englishman can be clergy of Ireland.
- End of the First Barons War:
- May 20 – First Barons' War: The royalists prevail at Lincoln.
- August 24 – First Barons' War: In the Battle of Sandwich between English and French soldiers in the English Channel, mercenary Eustace the Monk, working for the French side, is captured and beheaded.
- September 11 – The Treaty of Lambeth ends the First Barons' War.
[edit] Births
- John I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1286)
- Baldwin, Latin Emperor of Constantinople (d. 1273)
- Henry I of Cyprus
- Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III of England (d. 1291)
- Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler of Persia (d. 1265)
- Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1270)
[edit] Deaths
- April 23 – Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
- April 25 – Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia
- August 24 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate
- September 10 – William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon, English nobleman
- September 21 – Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian resistance leader and Caupo of Turaida, Livonian leader (at the Battle of St. Matthew's Day)
- October 14 – Isabel of Gloucester, wife of King John of England
- Maria Comnena, wife of Amalric I of Jerusalem
- Lovers of Teruel – Juan Martinez (aka Diego Marcilla) & Isabel Segura
[edit] References
- ^ Peter Linehan (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia. The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 670. ISBN 052136289X.
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
