1226

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s
Years:	1223 1224 1225 1226 1227 1228 1229

1226 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1226 MCCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1979
Armenian calendar	675 ԹՎ ՈՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	5976
Balinese saka calendar	1147–1148
Bengali calendar	633
Berber calendar	2176
English Regnal year	10 Hen. 3 – 11 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1770
Burmese calendar	588
Byzantine calendar	6734–6735
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3923 or 3716     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3924 or 3717
Coptic calendar	942–943
Discordian calendar	2392
Ethiopian calendar	1218–1219
Hebrew calendar	4986–4987
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1282–1283
- Shaka Samvat	1147–1148
- Kali Yuga	4326–4327
Holocene calendar	11226
Igbo calendar	226–227
Iranian calendar	604–605
Islamic calendar	622–624
Japanese calendar	Karoku 2 (嘉禄２年)
Javanese calendar	1134–1135
Julian calendar	1226 MCCXXVI
Korean calendar	3559
Minguo calendar	686 before ROC 民前686年
Nanakshahi calendar	−242
Thai solar calendar	1768–1769
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1352 or 971 or 199     — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1353 or 972 or 200

Year 1226 (MCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Europe

• King Louis VIII of France launches a large southward offensive against the Albigensians and the Count of Toulouse. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence, uses the opportunity to reassert his authority upon the autonomous municipalities of his estates (October). Most cities have to accept the authority of the Count, but Marseille and Nice rebel.
• November 8 – Louis IX of France starts to rule, on the death of Louis VIII.
• King Sancho II of Portugal launches a large offensive against the Muslims, and takes the city of Elvas.
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, calls the Imperial Diet of Cremona.
• Nuneaton is granted a chartered market status, by King Henry III of England.
• Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles, is overthrown as ruler of the Kingdom of the Isles, and replaced with his half-brother, Olaf the Black.

Asia

• March 9 – Khwarezmian sultan Jalal ad-Din captures Tbilisi, the capital of the Kingdom of Georgia, killing many of its Christian inhabitants.
• October 30 – Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần Dynasty of Vietnam, forces Lý Huệ Tông, last emperor of the Lý Dynasty, to commit suicide.

By topic

Arts and culture

• In Norway, Brother Robert writes Saga Af Tristram ok Ísodd, one of the rare fully surviving versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

Religion

• September 11 – The Catholic Church practice of eucharistic adoration among lay people formally begins in Avignon, Provence.
• The Carmelite Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.

Births

• March 21 – King Charles I of Naples (d. 1285)
• June 21 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
• Bar Hebraeus/Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar, historian and bishop (d. 1286)
• Hethum I, King of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
• Gertrude of Austria, duchess and throne claimant (d. 1288)

Deaths

• March 7 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
• September 16 – Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
• October 3 – Francis of Assisi, Italian saint (b. 1181 or 1182)
• November 8 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
• November 14 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
• date unknown – Robert de Ros, English baron (b. 1177)
  • Saint Beatrice d'Este, Italian saint