1236
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| 1236 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1236 MCCXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1989 |
| Armenian calendar | 685 ԹՎ ՈՁԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5986 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1157–1158 |
| Bengali calendar | 643 |
| Berber calendar | 2186 |
| English Regnal year | 20 Hen. 3 – 21 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1780 |
| Burmese calendar | 598 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6744–6745 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3933 or 3726 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3934 or 3727 |
| Coptic calendar | 952–953 |
| Discordian calendar | 2402 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1228–1229 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4996–4997 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1292–1293 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1157–1158 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4336–4337 |
| Holocene calendar | 11236 |
| Igbo calendar | 236–237 |
| Iranian calendar | 614–615 |
| Islamic calendar | 633–634 |
| Japanese calendar | Katei 2 (嘉禎２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1145–1146 |
| Julian calendar | 1236 MCCXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3569 |
| Minguo calendar | 676 before ROC 民前676年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −232 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1778–1779 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1362 or 981 or 209 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1363 or 982 or 210 |
Year 1236 (MCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
- Kouroukan Fouga, the constitution of the Mali Empire, is created.
Asia
- May 1 – Razia Sultana is the designated successor of her father, to the Delhi Sultanate.
- Only four of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols, under Ögedei Khan.
- Kalinga Magha, founder of the Aryacakravarti Dynasty, is expelled from Polonnaruwa to Jaffna, the capital of the Jaffna Kingdom.
Europe
- January 14 – Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
- June 29 – Córdoba, Andalusia, is taken by Castilian troops from the emir Ibn Hud, as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.[1] The Great Mosque here becomes wholly a Roman Catholic cathedral.
- September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
- Volga Bulgaria is conquered by the Mongol Batu Khan.
- A tournament at Tickhill in England turns into a battle between northerners and southerners, but peace is restored by the papal legate.[2]
By topic
Arts
- May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St. Albans Abbey dies. His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.
Markets
- A drought causes the harvest to fail, and leads to one of the great famines of the century in Europe.
Religion
- Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan Order.
Births
- June 6 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
- June 8 – Violant of Aragon, queen consort of Castile and León (d. 1301)
Deaths
- January 14 – Saint Sava of Serbia (b. 1175)
- July 29 – Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (b. 1175)
- May 6 – Roger of Wendover, English Benedictine monk and chronicler
- November 26 – Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi, Ayyubid emir of Aleppo (b. 1216)
- John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (b. c. 1179)
- Gilbert of Dunkeld, Bishop of Dunkeld
References
- ^ Peter Linehan (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–673. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
- ^ Hey, David. Medieval South Yorkshire.