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Year 1197 (MCXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Genghis Khan defeats the Jurkins. Mukhali's father gives him and his brother to Genghis Khan as personal hereditary slaves.
  • Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as King of Jerusalem.

    • Europe

  • Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.
  • Kaloyan becomes Tsar of Bulgaria.
  • Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.
  • Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, negotiates a peace with Wales.
  • North Crawley is split into Great Crawley and Little Crawley.
  • Philip of Swabia marries Irene Angelina, daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II.
  • The Danes attack Estonia.
  • Saracen pirates, from the Balearic Islands, raid the city of Toulon in Provence and the benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands.

    • Market

  • Rainy weather causes the harvest to fail in western Europe. One of the worst famines of the century ensues.

    • Religion

  • Arbroath Abbey is consecrated, and dedicated to St. Thomas Becket.

    • Births

  • July – Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (d. 1249)
  • October 22 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
  • Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (d. 1253)

    • Deaths

  • January – William Longchamp, Lord Chancellor of England and bishop
  • April 28 – Rhys ap Gruffydd, Welsh ruler (b. 1132)
  • August/September – Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1158)
  • September 10 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
  • September 28 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)

    • References

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