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1229

March 18 - Sixth Crusade of Frederick II: Fredrick crowns himself King.

Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire, England was founded.


University of Paris strike of 1229.


Foundation of the University of Toulouse in Toulouse, France.

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1228

April 25 - Conrad IV of Germany is born

Germany

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1227

Henry III of England declares himself of age and assumes power

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1226

- Carmelite Order approved by Pope Honorius III
- Frederick II calls Imperial Diet of Cremona

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1225

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- The Teutonic Order is expelled from Transylvania.

- Third reissue of Magna Carta.

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1224

- Foundation of the University of Naples
- Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquers Latgallians
- Last of Arabs expelled from Sicily

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1223

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- May 31 - Battle of the Kalka River between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and East Slavic warriors.

- August 6 - Louis VIII is crowned King of France.

- Franciscan Rule is approved by Pope Honorius III.

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1222

Events:
- Foundation of the University of Padua.

- John III Ducas Vatatzes becomes Byzantine emperor (in the Empire of Nicaea).

- Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan order.

- April 17 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens a council at Osney.


Birth:
- February 16 - Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (died 1282)

- August 4 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)

Death:
- August 2 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (born 1156)

- King John I of Sweden

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1221

Mongol Army under Jochi captures the city of Gurganj (now Kunya-Urgench), and massacres the inhabitants, reported by contemporary scholars as being over a million killed, although probably only a fifth or a tenth of that in reality.

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1220

- Dominican Order approved by Pope Honorius III
- Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III
- Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land
- Trial by ordeal abolished in England
- The German Hohenstaufen dynasty which had ruled Sicily since 1194, adopts Palermo as its principal seat

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1219

The Flag of Denmark fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse

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1218

Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade.

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1217

- August 24 - First Barons' War, Battle of Sandwich between English and French soldiers in the English Channel - mercenary Eustace the Monk working for the French side, is captured and beheaded

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1216

Ascension of Pope Honorius III;in the same year he officially approved the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order)

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1215

November 11 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

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1214

The Emperor of Jin China surrenders to the Mongols under Ghengis Khan who have been besieging Beijing for a year. He pays a huge ransom and then abandons Northern China, heading for Kaifeng.

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1213

Jin China is overrun by Mongols under Ghengis Khan, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only Beijing remained free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege.

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1212

10 July - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground
Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain
Children's crusade?!

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1211

- The oldest extant double entry bookkeeping record dates from 1211
- Canons regular of the Order of the Holy Cross founded September 14 1211
- Troops led by Estonian resistance fighter Lembitu of Lehola destroy a garrison of missionaries in the historical Estonian region of Sakala and raid the Russian town of Pskov.

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1210

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- End of the reign of Emperor Tsuchimikado, emperor of Japan

- Emperor Juntoku ascends to the throne of Japan

- Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor excommunicated by Pope Innocent III for invading southern Italy in 1210

- Gottfried von Strassburg writes his epic poem Tristan about 1210

- Beginning of Delhi Sultanate

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1209

-Albigensian Crusade against Cathars (1209-1218)

-The Franciscans are founded.

-Cambridge University was founded.

-London Bridge was completed.

-In August, Simon De Monfort, leader of Albigensian Crusade, takes over Carcassonne
Genghis Khan conquers Turkestan

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1208

Philip of Swabia King of Germany and rival Holy Roman Emperor to Otto IV, assassinated June 21 in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.

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1207

-Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.

-October 1 - King Henry III of England is born, October 1st.

-Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria dies.

-King Sancho II of Portugal is born, September 8th.

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1206

Temujin is proclaimed Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, founding the Mongol Empire

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1205

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- January 6 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans

- April 14 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Latins

- August 20 - Following certain news of Baldwin I's death, Henry of Flanders is crowned Emperor of the Latin Empire

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1204

Theodore I Lascaris flees to Nicaea after the capture of Constantinople, and establishes the Empire of Nicaea; Byzantine successor states are also established in Epirus and Trebizond.

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1203

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- April 16 - Philip II of France enters Rouen, leading to the eventual unification of Normandy and France.

- April 8 - Congress in Bilino Polje, where Ban Kulin officially declared his allegiance to the Catholic Church and denounced the heresy.

- June 23 - Fleet of the Fourth Crusade enters Bosphorus

- July 17 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III flees from his capital into exile.

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1202

Founding of Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda, Aragon Province, Spain

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1201

* July 5 - Major earthquake kills 1.1 million people in upper Egypt and Syria.
* August 18 - The town of Riga was chartered as a city.
* Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
* Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.
* The Fourth Crusade besieges Zara.

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1200

Mongol victory over Northern China — 30,000,000 killed

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1199

King Richard I of England is killed at the siege of Châlus. His younger brother, John Lackland, becomes King of England.

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1198

Frederick II, infant son of German King Henry VI, crowned King of Sicily

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1197

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- Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as king of Jerusalem.

- Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.

- The town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland is consecrated, and dedicated to St Thomas Becket.

- Kaloyan becomes tsar of Bulgaria.

- Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.

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1196

Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.

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1195

Battle of Alarcos, great victory of Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the Castilian King Alfonso VIII.

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1194

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- June 29 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.

- July 5 - Emperor Guangzong of Sung China was forced to give up his throne.

- Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

- November 20 - Palermo falls to Henry VI.

- December 25 - Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.

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1193

Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.

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1192

Minamoto no Yoritomo granted title of shogun, thereby officially establishing the first shogunate in the history of Japan.

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1191

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July 12 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.

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1190

March 16 - Massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England prompted by Crusaders and Richard Malebys kill 150-500 Jews in Clifford's Tower
Anti-Jewish riots in England

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1189

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- This year was fixed as the end of time immemorial in English law in 1276.

- Beginning of the Siege of Acre.