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1198

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Year 1198 (MCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Emperor Tsuchimikado succeeds Emperor Go-Toba on the throne of Japan.

    • Europe

  • March – Philip of Swabia is elected King of Germany by his supporters.
  • July – Otto of Brunswick is crowned King of Germany by the House of Welf.
  • Frederick II, infant son of German King Henry VI, is crowned King of Sicily.
  • John of England captures a party of eighteen French knights & many men-at-arms in the ongoing conflict against France. King Richard I of England introduces a new Great Seal in an attempt to keep the war against France funded. The government proclaims that charters previously struck with the old seal are no longer valid and must be renewed with a fresh payment. The office of Lord Warden of the Stannaries is also introduced to tax the produce of tin mines in Cornwall and Devon.

    • Religion

  • January 8 – Pope Innocent III succeeds Pope Celestine III to become the 176th pope. He immediately lays an interdict on Laon in an attempt to stamp out independent beliefs there. This will be followed by interdicts against France in 1199 and Normandy in 1203.

    • Births

  • August 24 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
  • date unknown
  • Ertugrul, Turkish leader, father of Osman I (d. 1281)
  • Ferdinand III of Castile (d. 1252)
  • Sybilla of Lusignan, wife of Leo II of Armenia (d. c. 1230)

    • Deaths

  • January 8 – Pope Celestine III (b. c. 1106)
  • March 11 – Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
  • April 16 – Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. c. 1175)
  • September 1 – Dulce, Queen of Portugal, wife of King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1160)
  • November 27 – Constance, Queen of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
  • December 10 – Averroes, Arab philosopher and physician (b. 1126)
  • date unknown
  • Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, last High King of Ireland
  • Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1150)
  • William III of Sicily (b. 1190)
  • William of Newburgh, English historian (b. 1135)

    • References

    1198 Wikipedia
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