1213
Year
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Year 1213 (MCCXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1213 MCCXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1966 |
| Armenian calendar | 662 ԹՎ ՈԿԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5963 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1134–1135 |
| Bengali calendar | 619–620 |
| Berber calendar | 2163 |
| English Regnal year | 14 Joh. 1 – 15 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1757 |
| Burmese calendar | 575 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6721–6722 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3910 or 3703 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3911 or 3704 |
| Coptic calendar | 929–930 |
| Discordian calendar | 2379 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1205–1206 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4973–4974 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1269–1270 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1134–1135 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4313–4314 |
| Holocene calendar | 11213 |
| Igbo calendar | 213–214 |
| Iranian calendar | 591–592 |
| Islamic calendar | 609–610 |
| Japanese calendar | Kenryaku 3 / Kenpō 1 (建保元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1121–1122 |
| Julian calendar | 1213 MCCXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3546 |
| Minguo calendar | 699 before ROC 民前699年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −255 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1755–1756 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1339 or 958 or 186 — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1340 or 959 or 187 |
Events
- May 15 – King John of England submits to Pope Innocent III, who in turn lifts the interdict of 1208 the following year.[1][2]
- May 30 – Battle of Damme: The English fleet under William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, destroys a French fleet off the Belgian port in the first major victory for the fledgling Royal Navy.[3][4]
- September 12 – Battle of Muret: The Toulousain and Aragonese forces of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon are defeated by the Albigensian Crusade, under Simon de Montfort.[5][6]
- Jin China is overrun by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only Beijing remains free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege.[7][8]
- Pope Innocent III issues a charter calling for the Fifth Crusade to recapture Jerusalem.[9][10][11]
- Construction of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland is completed.[12][13]
Births
- March 9 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)[14]
- June 10 – Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian philosopher and Sufi mystic[15][16]
- Ibn al-Nafis, polymath (d. 1288)[17]
- Hethum I, King of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (d. 1270)
Deaths
- January 18 – Queen Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)[18][19]
- April 13 – Guy of Thouars, regent of Brittany[20][21][22]
- April 21 – Maria of Montpellier, Lady of Montpellier, Queen of Aragon (b. 1182)[23][24]
- September 12 – King Peter II of Aragon (killed in battle) (b. 1174)[25][26]
- September 28 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort regent of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)[27][28][29]
- October 10 – Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine[30]
- October 14 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex[31][32]
- Sharafeddin Tusi, Persian mathematician (b. 1135)[33][34][35]