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Year 1236 (MCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Kouroukan Fouga, the constitution of the Mali Empire, is created.

    • Asia

  • May 1 – Razia Sultana is the designated successor of her father to the Delhi Sultanate.
  • Only 4 of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols under Ögedei Khan.
  • Kalinga Magha, founder of the Aryacakravarti dynasty, is expelled from Polonnaruwa to Jaffna, the capital of the Jaffna kingdom.

    • Europe

  • January 14 – Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
  • June 29 – Córdoba, Andalusia, is taken by Castilian troops from the emir Ibn Hud al-Yamadi as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. The Great Mosque here becomes wholly a Roman Catholic cathedral.
  • September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
  • Volga Bulgaria is conquered by the Mongol Batu Khan.
  • A tournament at Tickhill in England turns into a battle between northerners and southerners, but peace is restored by the papal legate.

    • Arts

  • May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St. Albans Abbey dies. His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.

    • Markets

  • A drought causes the harvest to fail and leads to one of the great famines of the century in Europe.

    • Religion

  • Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan Order.

    • Births

  • June 6 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)

    • Deaths

  • January 14 – Saint Sava of Serbia (b. 1175)
  • May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler
  • November 26 – Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi, Ayyubid emir of Aleppo (b. 1216)
  • John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (b. c. 1179)
  • Gilbert of Dunkeld, Bishop of Dunkeld

    • References

    1236 Wikipedia
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