1206

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s
Years:	1203 1204 1205 1206 1207 1208 1209

1206 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1206 MCCVI
Ab urbe condita	1959
Armenian calendar	655 ԹՎ ՈԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5956
Balinese saka calendar	1127–1128
Bengali calendar	613
Berber calendar	2156
English Regnal year	7 Joh. 1 – 8 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1750
Burmese calendar	568
Byzantine calendar	6714–6715
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3902 or 3842     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3903 or 3843
Coptic calendar	922–923
Discordian calendar	2372
Ethiopian calendar	1198–1199
Hebrew calendar	4966–4967
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1262–1263
- Shaka Samvat	1127–1128
- Kali Yuga	4306–4307
Holocene calendar	11206
Igbo calendar	206–207
Iranian calendar	584–585
Islamic calendar	602–603
Japanese calendar	Genkyū 3 / Ken'ei 1 (建永元年)
Javanese calendar	1114–1115
Julian calendar	1206 MCCVI
Korean calendar	3539
Minguo calendar	706 before ROC 民前706年
Nanakshahi calendar	−262
Thai solar calendar	1748–1749
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1332 or 951 or 179     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1333 or 952 or 180

Events

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 the 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.[1]

Education

• Colchester Royal Grammar School is founded in England.

Religion

• The Order of the Friars Minor is founded by Francis of Assisi.[2]
• 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.[3]
• 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)
• Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln (d. 1266)

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

1. King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 139
2. Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review. 15 (3): 506–562.
3. King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 11