1200

This article is about the year 1200. For the turntable, see Technics SL-1200. For other uses, see 1200 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s
Years:	1197 1198 1199 1200 1201 1202 1203

1200 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1200 MCC
Ab urbe condita	1953
Armenian calendar	649 ԹՎ ՈԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5950
Balinese saka calendar	1121–1122
Bengali calendar	607
Berber calendar	2150
English Regnal year	1 Joh. 1 – 2 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1744
Burmese calendar	562
Byzantine calendar	6708–6709
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3897 or 3690     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3898 or 3691
Coptic calendar	916–917
Discordian calendar	2366
Ethiopian calendar	1192–1193
Hebrew calendar	4960–4961
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1256–1257
- Shaka Samvat	1121–1122
- Kali Yuga	4300–4301
Holocene calendar	11200
Igbo calendar	200–201
Iranian calendar	578–579
Islamic calendar	596–597
Japanese calendar	Shōji 2 (正治２年)
Javanese calendar	1108–1109
Julian calendar	1200 MCC
Korean calendar	3533
Minguo calendar	712 before ROC 民前712年
Nanakshahi calendar	−268
Thai solar calendar	1742–1743
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1326 or 945 or 173     — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1327 or 946 or 174

The eastern hemisphere in 1200

Year 1200 (MCC) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• August 24 – After touring an army through Aquitaine to assert his right to it, John of England marries 12-year-old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
• The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.
• The Mongols defeat Northern China.
• The University of Paris receives its charter, from Philip II of France.
• The rebel Ivanko is captured and executed, by the Byzantine general Alexios Palaiologos
• The Cherokee and Catawba tribes fought in a great battle in the Brown Mountain of modern day North Carolina.

Births

• January 19 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (d. 1253)
• exact date unknown
  • Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)
  • John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)
  • Ingerd Jakobsdatter, Danish countess (d. 1258)
• probable
  • Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)
  • Adam Marsh, English Franciscan scholar and theologian (approximate date; d. 1259)
  • Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)
  • Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)
  • Mindaugas, Great King of Lithuania (approximate date; d. 1263)
  • William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; d. c.1272)

Deaths

• April 8 – Adalbert III of Bohemia, archbishop (b. 1145)
• April 23 – Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
• June 2 – Bishop John of Oxford (date of birth unknown)
• September 17? – Emperor Guangzong of Song (b. 1147)
• December – Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• date unknown – Odo of Canterbury, theologian and abbot of Battle (date of birth unknown)