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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.