Suvarna Garge (Editor)

1205

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit


Year 1205 (MCCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Africa

  • The general Muhammad al_Inti b. Abi Hafs establishes the Almohad domination over the eastern parts of Ifriqiya and enters in Tripoli.

    • Asia

  • Theodore I Laskaris is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor, formally founding the Empire of Nicaea, after repelling the invasions of rivals David Komnenos and Manuel Maurozomes into his domains.

    • Europe

  • January 6 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
  • April 14 – The Bulgarians defeat the Latins in the Battle of Adrianople.
  • Anjou is conquered by Philip II of France. Fearing a French invasion of England itself, John of England requires every English male over 12 to enter an association "for the general defence of the realm and the preservation of peace".
  • Othon de la Roche founds the Duchy of Athens.
  • William of Wrotham, Lord Warden of the Stannaries of England, oversees a reform of English currency. In keeping with other high-ranking bureaucrats of his time and place, this is just one of Wrotham's many offices: he is also Keeper of the King's Ports & Galleys, supervisor of the mints of Canterbury and London, ward of the vacant Diocese of Bath and Wells, an archdeacon of Taunton, a canon of Wells, and will serve the following year as a circuit judge.

    • Religion

  • July 15 – Pope lays down the principle that Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude because they had crucified Jesus.

    • Births

  • January 26 - Emperor Lizong of Song (died 1264)
  • July 10 - Hōjō Masamura, Japanese shogun (died 1273)
  • August - Razia Sultana,a woman ruler of New Delhi(d.1240)

    • Deaths

  • April 1 – King Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
  • April 5 – Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem (b. 1172)
  • May 7 – Ladislaus III of Hungary (b. 1201)
  • June 14 – Walter III, Count of Brienne
  • July 13 – Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury

    • & June – Alexios Aspietes, ruler of Philippopolis

  • December – Alexios V Doukas, Byzantine Emperor (executed)
  • date unknown
  • Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. c. 1107)
  • Žvelgaitis, Lithuanian duke
  • probable – Baldwin I of Constantinople (b. 1172)

    • References

    1205 Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics