1202

This article is about the year 1202.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1199 1200 1201 – 1202 – 1203 1204 1205

1202 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1202 in poetry

1202 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1202 MCCII
Ab urbe condita	1955
Armenian calendar	651 ԹՎ ՈԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5952
Bengali calendar	609
Berber calendar	2152
English Regnal year	3 Joh. 1 – 4 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1746
Burmese calendar	564
Byzantine calendar	6710–6711
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3898 or 3838     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3899 or 3839
Coptic calendar	918–919
Discordian calendar	2368
Ethiopian calendar	1194–1195
Hebrew calendar	4962–4963
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1258–1259
- Shaka Samvat	1124–1125
- Kali Yuga	4303–4304
Holocene calendar	11202
Igbo calendar	202–203
Iranian calendar	580–581
Islamic calendar	598–599
Japanese calendar	Kennin 2 (建仁２年)
Julian calendar	1202 MCCII
Korean calendar	3535
Minguo calendar	710 before ROC 民前710年
Thai solar calendar	1744–1745

Year 1202 (MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• May 20 – 1202 Syria earthquake.
• Genghis Khan crushes the Tatars.

Europe

• May–October – Fourth Crusade gathers in Venice.
• July – John, King of England rescues his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, from near capture by the rebellious forces of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany.
• July 27 – Georgians defeat the Seljuqids of Rüm at the Battle of Basian.
• August 1 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany is captured in Mirebeau, north of Poitiers, during a battle with John, King of England.
• November 10–23 – Fourth Crusade – Siege of Zara: In the first major action of the Crusade, the Crusaders besiege and conquer Zadar in Dalmatia. Unable to pay the Republic of Venice in cash for its contributions to the Crusade, the Crusaders agree to sack the city (an economic rival to Venice) despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding such an action and threatening excommunication (which is carried out at the urging of Emeric, King of Hungary). This is the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic Crusaders.
• The Almohad fleet expels the Banu Ghaniya from the Balearic Islands.
• The Livonian Brothers of the Sword is founded to support a crusade against the inhabitants of Medieval Livonia.
• Pope Innocent III reasserts his right to evaluate and crown the Holy Roman Emperor, in a letter to Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen.

By topic

Culture

• Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa writes Liber Abaci, about the modus Indorum, the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, including use of zero; it is the first major work in Europe to move away from the use of Roman numerals.
• Approximate date – The first jesters are hired in European courts.

Religion

• The Rueda Abbey is founded by Cistercians at Sástago in the Kingdom of Aragon (modern-day Spain).

Births

• June 2 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (d. 1278)
• Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1262)
• Qin Jiushao, Chinese mathematician of the Song dynasty (d. 1261)

Deaths

• January 9 – Birger Brosa, jarl since 1174
• March 9 – Sverre Sigurdsson, King of Norway since 1184
• March 13 – Mieszko III the Old, king of Poland (b. c. 1121)
• May 7 – Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
• November 12 – Canute VI of Denmark (b. 1163)
• Cathal Carragh Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht
• Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (b. c. 1128)