1218
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| Years: 1215 1216 1217 – 1218 – 1219 1220 1221 |
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| Decades: 1180s 1190s 1200s – 1210s – 1220s 1230s 1240s |
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| Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
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| 1218 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1218 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1218 MCCXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1971 |
| Armenian calendar | 667 ԹՎ ՈԿԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -626 – -625 |
| Berber calendar | 2168 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1762 |
| Burmese calendar | 580 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6726 – 6727 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十二月初三日 (3854/3914-12-3) — to —
戊寅年十二月十二日(3855/3915-12-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 934 – 935 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1210 – 1211 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4978 – 4979 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1273 – 1274 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1140 – 1141 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4319 – 4320 |
| Holocene calendar | 11218 |
| Iranian calendar | 596 – 597 |
| Islamic calendar | 614 – 615 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3551 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1761 |
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[edit] Events
- May 24 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
- Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade.
- The Livonian Brothers of the Sword begin to conquer Estonia.
- Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes Udaijin of Japan.
- Alfonso IX of Castile founds the University of Salamanca.
- Genghis Khan destroys Kara-Khitai.
- Genghis Khan's Mongols, under the leadership of his eldest son Jochi, conduct a second campaign against the Kyrgyz.
- Genghis Khan proposes to the Khwarazm shah of Persia that he accept Mongol overlordship and establish trade relations.
- Saint Pedro Nolasco founds the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy in Barcelona, Spain.
[edit] Births
- February 12 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
- May 1 – John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
- May 1 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1291)
- October 30 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
- Abel of Denmark (d. 1252)
- Sir Maurice de Berkeley, English knight (d. 1281)
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
- May 19 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- June 25 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- July 6 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
- December 30 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
- Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and ruler (b. 1145)
- Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
- Hugh I of Cyprus
