1210
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1210 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1210 MCCX |
Ab urbe condita | 1963 |
Armenian calendar | 659 ԹՎ ՈԾԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5960 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1131–1132 |
Bengali calendar | 617 |
Berber calendar | 2160 |
English Regnal year | 11 Joh. 1 – 12 Joh. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 1754 |
Burmese calendar | 572 |
Byzantine calendar | 6718–6719 |
Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3907 or 3700 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3908 or 3701 |
Coptic calendar | 926–927 |
Discordian calendar | 2376 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1202–1203 |
Hebrew calendar | 4970–4971 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1266–1267 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1131–1132 |
- Kali Yuga | 4310–4311 |
Holocene calendar | 11210 |
Igbo calendar | 210–211 |
Iranian calendar | 588–589 |
Islamic calendar | 606–607 |
Japanese calendar | Jōgen 4 (承元4年) |
Javanese calendar | 1118–1119 |
Julian calendar | 1210 MCCX |
Korean calendar | 3543 |
Minguo calendar | 702 before ROC 民前702年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −258 |
Thai solar calendar | 1752–1753 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1336 or 955 or 183 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1337 or 956 or 184 |
Year 1210 (MCCX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- Emperor Juntoku succeeds Emperor Tsuchimikado, on the throne of Japan.
- Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, leads a Mongol campaign against the Kyrgyz.
Europe
- May – The Second Parliament of Ravennika is held at Ravennika in Central Greece, resulting in a concordat between the princes of Frankish Greece and the Roman Catholic clergy.
- July 18 – Battle of Gestilren: Former king Sverker II of Sweden is defeated and killed, by the reigning king Erik X.
- November 18 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III, for invading southern Italy in defiance of the Concordat of Worms.
- November 21 – King Eric X of Sweden is crowned, which is the first known coronation of a Swedish king. Shortly thereafter, he marries the Danish princess Richeza, in order to strengthen his relationship to the Danish king Valdemar the Conqueror. Valdemar used to support King Sverker II, but through the marriage, Valdemar makes peace with his former enemy, Eric.
- King John I of England raises £100,000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy; the operation is described as an “inestimable and incomparable exaction” by contemporary sources.[1]
- Livonian Crusade – Battle of Ümera: Estonian forces defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
- The citadel of the Acrocorinth in Greece surrenders to the Crusaders, after a five-year siege.
By topic
Arts and culture
- Gottfried von Strassburg writes his epic poem Tristan (approximate date).
- 1210–1211 – Shazi creates the Pen Box, from Persia (Iran) or Afghanistan (it is now kept at Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.).
Nature
- September 24 – Venus occults Jupiter (the last such occurrence until 1570).
Religion
- Pope Innocent III gives oral permission to Francis of Assisi, to begin the Order of Friars Minor.
- The church of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London is founded, as a priory of Benedictine nuns.
Births
- May 5 – King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
- June 24 – Count Floris IV of Holland (d. 1234)
- July 22 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, spouse of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)[2]
Deaths
- March 29 – Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persian polymath, (b. 1150)
- July 17 – Sverker the Younger, king of Sweden 1196–1208 (b. in the 1160s) (in the Battle of Gestilren)
- date unknown
- Aonghus mac Somhairle, Norse-Gaelic chieftain
- Jinul, Korean Buddhist philosopher
- Halldóra Eyjólfsdóttir, Icelandic abbess
- Qutb-ud-din Aibak, first Muslim ruler of Delhi
- Maud de Braose, English noblewoman (b. 1155)
References
- ^ Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1).
- ^ Elizabeth Ewan, ed. (2006). The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 (Reprinted ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press. p. 400. ISBN 0-7486-1713-2.