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Year 1219 (MCCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • November 5 – Damietta, Egypt falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade.
  • The Egyptian city of Al Mansurah is founded.

    • Asia

  • By letter, Genghis Khan summons Qiu Chuji (Chongchan) to visit him to advise him on the medicine of immortality (the Philosopher's Stone)
  • The Hojo family, vassals of the Shogun, reduce him to a figurehead.

    • Europe

  • June 15 – Livonian Crusade: Danish crusaders led by King Valdemar II conquer Tallinn in the Battle of Lyndanisse. What is to become the flag of Denmark allegedly falls from the sky during that battle. Their stronghold in Tallinn will help the Danes conquer the entire Northern Estonia. The Dannebrog remains the national flag of Denmark.
  • Twenty-four Lithuanian dukes and nobles purportedly sign a peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia, stating common cause against invading Christian Crusaders.
  • Upon the death of Aymeric of Saint Maur, Alan Marcell becomes master of the Temple in England.
  • The East Frisian island of Burchana is broken up in a North Sea flood.

    • Technology

  • The windmill is first introduced to China with the travels of Yelü Chucai to Transoxiana.

    • Births

  • Christopher I of Denmark (d. 1259)
  • Guillaume de Gisors, Grand Master of the fictional Priory of Sion (d. 1307)
  • Ariq Boke, the youngest son of Tolui and the 5th Khagan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1266)

    • Deaths

  • February 13 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
  • May 2 (or May 5) – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
  • May 14 – William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1146)
  • June 17 – David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1152)
  • August –Yolanda of Flanders, wife and regent of Peter of Courtenay (b. 1175)
  • November 3 – Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel (born c. 1170)
  • Raymond-Roupen of Antioch (b. 1199)
  • John de Courcy, knight and Earl of Ulster (b. 1160)
  • Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople
  • Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire (b. 1181)

    • References

    1219 Wikipedia
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