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Year 1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Temüjin is proclaimed Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, founding the Mongol Empire.
  • Mukhali is appointed myriarch of the left wing of the newly reorganized Mongol army, and granted immunity for up to 9 breaches of the law.
  • Qutb-ud-din Aybak, a Turkish mameluke from Central Asia proclaims the Mameluk dynasty in India, the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

    • Europe

  • Theodore Lascaris is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Nicaea.
  • The Livonian Brothers of the Sword, in alliance with the Semigallians, conquer Livs.
  • King Valdemar II and Archbishop Andreas Sunonis raid Saaremaa Island, Estonia, forcing the islanders to submit. The Danes build a fortress, but finding no volunteers to man it, they burn it down themselves and leave the island.

    • Arts and culture

  • Sugar, an import from the Muslim world, is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account. Almonds, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg are also imported for royal banquets.

    • Education

  • Colchester Royal Grammar School founded in England.

    • Religion

  • Foundation of the Order of the Friars Minor by Francis of Assisi.
  • A peasant named Thurkhill in England claims that Saint Julian took him on a tour of Purgatory. Thurkhill includes realistic touches including descriptions of Purgatory’s torture chambers, and is believed by Roger of Wendover, one of his society’s leading historians.
  • This year, Dominic de Guzmán claims to have received the Holy Rosary from the Virgin Mary.

    • Technics

  • The Arab engineer al-Jazari describes many mechanical inventions in his book (title translated to English) The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.

    • Births

  • Béla IV of Hungary (d. 1270)
  • Güyük Khan, the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1248)

    • Deaths

  • April 7 – Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
  • April – John X, Patriarch of Constantinople (alternative date is May)
  • June 4 – Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France and regent of France
  • Ikhtiyar al-Din Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, founder of Muslim rule in Bengal
  • Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (b. 1162)
  • Jamuqa, Mongol military and political leader
  • Yang Wanli, Chinese poet (b. 1127)

    • References

    1206 Wikipedia
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