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Year 1218 (MCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • August 31 – Al-Kamil becomes the new Egyptian Sultan on the death of his father Al-Adil.

    • Asia

  • May 24 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
  • Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade.
  • Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes Udaijin of Japan.
  • The Kara-Khitan Khanate is destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry.
  • Genghis Khan's Mongols, under the leadership of his eldest son Jochi, conduct a second campaign against the Kyrgyz.
  • Genghis Khan proposes to the Khwarazm shah of Persia that he accept Mongol overlordship and establish trade relations.

    • Europe

  • March – The Treaty of Worcester recognises Llywelyn the Great as regent of south Wales.
  • July – Spain: In order to facilitate the movement of Reconquista, Pope Honorius III reverses Innocent III’s earlier judgement and declares Ferdinand III of Castile legitimate heir to the Kingdom of Leon.

    • Education

  • Alfonso IX of León grants a royal charter to the University of Salamanca.

    • Markets

  • The northern French city of Rheims emits the first recorded public life annuity in medieval Europe. Theretofore, this type of instrument had been mostly issued by religious institutions. The emission by Rheims is the first evidence of a consolidation of public debt that is to become common in the Langue d'Oïl, the Low Countries and Germany.

    • Religion

  • Saint Pedro Nolasco founds the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy in Barcelona, Spain.

    • Births

  • February 12 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
  • May 1
  • John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
  • Rudolf I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1291)
  • October 30 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
  • Abel of Denmark (d. 1252)
  • Sir Maurice de Berkeley, English knight (d. 1281)

    • Deaths

  • January 10 – Hugh I of Cyprus
  • February 2 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
  • February 18 – Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen (b. 1160)
  • May 19 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  • June 25 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
  • July 6 – Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
  • November 12 – Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
  • December 28 – Robert II, Count of Dreux (b. 1154)
  • date unknown
  • Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and ruler, Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia (b. 1145)
  • Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
  • approximate date – Umadevi, Indian queen and general (b. 1150)

    • References

    1218 Wikipedia
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