1210

1210 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1210
MCCX
Ab urbe condita1963
Armenian calendar659
ԹՎ ՈԾԹ
Assyrian calendar5960
Balinese saka calendar1131–1132
Bengali calendar616–617
Berber calendar2160
English Regnal year11 Joh. 1 – 12 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar1754
Burmese calendar572
Byzantine calendar6718–6719
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3907 or 3700
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3908 or 3701
Coptic calendar926–927
Discordian calendar2376
Ethiopian calendar1202–1203
Hebrew calendar4970–4971
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1266–1267
 - Shaka Samvat1131–1132
 - Kali Yuga4310–4311
Holocene calendar11210
Igbo calendar210–211
Iranian calendar588–589
Islamic calendar606–607
Japanese calendarJōgen 4
(承元4年)
Javanese calendar1118–1119
Julian calendar1210
MCCX
Korean calendar3543
Minguo calendar702 before ROC
民前702年
Nanakshahi calendar−258
Thai solar calendar1752–1753
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1336 or 955 or 183
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Horse)
1337 or 956 or 184
Coronation of Maria of Montferrat (right) and John of Brienne in the Crusader Cathedral of Tyre.

Year 1210 (MCCX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • May – The Second Parliament of Ravennika, convened by Emperor Henry of Flanders, is held in the town of Ravennika (in modern Greece), in order to resolve the differences between the princes of Frankish Greece, and the Roman Catholic clergy of their domains. The assembled nobles and prelates conclude a concordat, which recognizes the independence and immunity of all Church property in Frankish Greece from any feudal duties.[1]
  • July 18 – Battle of Gestilren: Sverker the Younger, the exiled former King of Sweden, is defeated and killed by the reigning King Erik Knutsson. After the battle, Erik takes the Swedish throne and marries Princess Rikissa of Denmark, daughter of the late King Valdemar I of Denmark to improve the relations with Denmark, which had supported King Sverker.
  • November 18 – Emperor Otto IV is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after he occupies Apulia in southern Italy. Otto annuls the Concordat of Worms and demands from Innocent recognition of the imperial crown's right. A German civil war breaks out, and Otto prepares an invasion against Frederick II, king of Sicily.[2]
  • November 21 – Eric X is crowned – which is the first known coronation of a Swedish king. He strengthens his relationship with his brother-in-law, King Valdemar II of Denmark ("the Conqueror"). Shortly after, Valdemar conquers Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk) on the Baltic coast, and Eastern Pomerania from the Slavonic Wends.[3]
  • November 22 – Siege of Termes: The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian Crusade.[4]
  • Battle of Ümera: Estonian forces defeat the Crusaders of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The Estonians pursue the fleeing Crusaders and according to the Livonian Chronicle some of the prisoners are burned alive, while others have crosses carved on their backs with swords before being executed as well.[5]

England

  • The Papal Interdict of 1208 remains in force.
  • King John extends his taxes and raises £100,000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy; the operation is described as an “inestimable and incomparable exaction” by contemporary sources.[6]
  • November 1 – John orders that Jews across the country have to pay a tallage, a sum of money to the king. Those who do not pay are arrested and imprisoned. Many Jews are executed or leave the country.[7]

Levant

  • September 14 – The 18-year-old Maria of Montferrat marries the French nobleman John of Brienne, who brings a dowry of 40,000 silver pounds (from King Philip II and Pope Innocent III). On October 3, the couple is crowned as King and Queen of Jerusalem in the Crusader Cathedral of Tyre (modern Lebanon).[8]

Asia

  • Jochi, Mongol leader and eldest son of Genghis Khan, begins a campaign against the Kyrgyz. Meanwhile, Emperor Xiang Zong of Western Xia agrees to submit to Mongol rule, he gives his daughter, Chaka, in marriage to Genghis and pays him a tribute of camels, falcons, and textiles.[9]
  • December 12 – Emperor Tsuchimikado abdicates the throne in favor of his younger brother, Juntoku, after a 12-year reign. He is the second son of the former Emperor Go-Toba and becomes the 84th emperor of Japan.

By topic

Art and Culture

Astronomy

Religion

Births

  • May 5 – Afonso III (the Boulonnais), king of Portugal (d. 1279)
  • June 24 – Floris IV, Count of Holland, Dutch nobleman and knight (d. 1234)
  • July 22 – Joan of England, queen of Scotland (d. 1238)[10]
  • unknown date – Alice of Montferrat, queen consort of Cyprus (d. 1233)

Deaths

  • March 29 – Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persian polymath (b. 1150)
  • May 6 – Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia, German nobleman and knight (b. 1159)
  • May 13 – Noriko (or Hanshi), Japanese empress (b. 1177)
  • July 17 – Sverker II (the Younger), king of Sweden
  • October 16 – Matilda of Boulogne, duchess of Brabant
  • November 14 – Qutb al-Din Aibak, Indian ruler (b. 1150)
  • November 30 – Florence of Holland, Scottish bishop
  • December 14 – Soffredo, Italian cardinal and patriarch
  • Aonghus mac Somhairle, Norse-Gaelic chieftain
  • Gottfried von Strassburg, German poet and writer
  • Halldóra Eyjólfsdóttir, Icelandic nun and abbess
  • Jean Bodel, French poet and writer (b. 1165)
  • Jinul (or Chinul), Korean Zen Master (b. 1158)
  • Lu You, Chinese historian, poet and writer (b. 1125)
  • Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir, Zangid historian (b. 1149)
  • Maud de Braose, English noblewoman (b. 1155)
  • Muhammad II, ruler of the Alamut state (b. 1148)
  • Praepositinus, Italian philosopher and theologian
  • Risteárd de Tiúit, Norman warrior and nobleman
  • Robert of Braybrooke, English landowner (b. 1168)
  • William FitzAlan, Norman nobleman and knight

References

  1. ^ Miller, William (1908). The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566), p. 75. London: John Murray. OCLC 563022439.
  2. ^ Dunham, S. A. (1835). A History of the Germanic Empire, Vol I, p. 196.
  3. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 133. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. ^ Marvin, Laurence W. (2008). The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0521123655.
  5. ^ Subrena, Jean-Jacques (2004). Estonia: Identity and Independence, p. 301. ISBN 90-420-0890-3.
  6. ^ Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1): 1–17. doi:10.2307/1832571. JSTOR 1832571.
  7. ^ Carpenter, David (2004). The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain (1066–1284), p. 272. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014824-4.
  8. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 113. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
  9. ^ Man, John (2004). Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, p. 162. New York City: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-553-81498-9.
  10. ^ 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.