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1200

Year 1200 (MCC) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • August 24 – After touring an army through Aquitaine to assert his right to it, John of England marries 12-year-old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
  • The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.
  • The Mongols defeat Northern China.
  • The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.
  • The rebel Ivanko is captured and executed by the Byzantine general Alexios Palaiologos

    • Births

  • January 19 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (d. 1253)
  • Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)
  • Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)
  • Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; d. 1259)
  • John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)
  • Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)
  • Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)
  • Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (born c. 1200, d. 1263)
  • William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; d. c.1272)
  • Ingerd Jakobsdatter, Danish countess (d. 1258)

    • Deaths

  • April 23 – Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
  • December – Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
  • Count Joscelin III of Edessa
  • Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)

    • References

    1200 Wikipedia
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