1216

Year 1216(MCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Pope Innocent III

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1190s 1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s
Years:	1213 1214 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219

1216 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1216 MCCXVI
Ab urbe condita	1969
Armenian calendar	665 ԹՎ ՈԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5966
Balinese saka calendar	1137–1138
Bengali calendar	623
Berber calendar	2166
English Regnal year	17 Joh. 1 – 1 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1760
Burmese calendar	578
Byzantine calendar	6724–6725
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3912 or 3852     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3913 or 3853
Coptic calendar	932–933
Discordian calendar	2382
Ethiopian calendar	1208–1209
Hebrew calendar	4976–4977
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1272–1273
- Shaka Samvat	1137–1138
- Kali Yuga	4316–4317
Holocene calendar	11216
Igbo calendar	216–217
Iranian calendar	594–595
Islamic calendar	612–613
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 4 (建保４年)
Javanese calendar	1124–1125
Julian calendar	1216 MCCXVI
Korean calendar	3549
Minguo calendar	696 before ROC 民前696年
Nanakshahi calendar	−252
Thai solar calendar	1758–1759
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1342 or 961 or 189     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1343 or 962 or 190

Events

Europe

• January – First Barons' War: The English army sacks Berwick-on-Tweed, and raids southern Scotland.[1]
• April 10 – Upon the death of Erik Knutsson, he is succeeded by his rival Johan Sverkersson, as king of Sweden.
• April 22 – Battle of Lipitsa: Mstislav the Daring and Konstantin of Rostov defeat their rivals for the rule of the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal.
• May 21 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet. Entering London without opposition, he is proclaimed, but not crowned, King of England at Old St Paul's Cathedral.[1]
• July 24 – The French Albigensian Crusaders of the castle of Beaucaire surrender to Raymond, future count of Toulouse.[2]
• October 18 or 19 – John, King of England, dies at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire; he is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry, with William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as regent. The young Henry III of England is crowned at Gloucester on October 28.[3]
• November 12 – William Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on Magna Carta, in the new King of England's name.[3][4]
• Dresden receives city rights.
• In England, Roger of Wendover begins to cover contemporary events, in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum.

Religion

• July 24 – Pope Honorius III succeeds Pope Innocent III, as the 177th pope.
• December 22 – Pope Honorius III officially approves the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order), by the Papal bull Religiosam vitam.
• Ballintubber Abbey is founded by King Cathal Crovdearg O'Connor of Connaught, in Ireland.

Births

• Eric IV of Denmark (d. 1250)
• Henry V of Luxembourg (d. 1281)
• Robert I of Artois, Count of Artois (d. 1250)
• Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, musician and theorist (d. 1296)
• Zahed Gilani, Grand Master of the Zahediyeh Sufi Order (d. 1301)

Deaths

• January 31 – Theodore II Eirenikos, Patriarch of Constantinople
• April 10 – Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)
• June 11 – Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (poisoned) (b. c. 1174)
• July 16 – Pope Innocent III
• October 19 – John of England (b. 1166)
• Ida, Countess of Boulogne, French ruler (b. c. 1160)
• Kamo no Chōmei, Japanese author (b. 1155)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Dell'Umbria, Alèssi (2006). Histoire universelle de Marseille. De l'an mil à l'an deux mille. Marseille: Agone. p. 27. ISBN 2-7489-0061-8.
3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 133–135. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
4. Powicke, Maurice (1962). The Thirteenth Century 1216–1307. Oxford History of England, vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 5.