1201
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1198 1199 1200 – 1201 – 1202 1203 1204 |
| 1201 by topic | |
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| Art and literature | |
| 1201 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1201 MCCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1954 |
| Armenian calendar | 650 ԹՎ ՈԾ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5951 |
| Bengali calendar | 608 |
| Berber calendar | 2151 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Joh. 1 – 3 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1745 |
| Burmese calendar | 563 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6709–6710 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3897 or 3837 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3898 or 3838 |
| Coptic calendar | 917–918 |
| Discordian calendar | 2367 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1193–1194 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4961–4962 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1257–1258 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1123–1124 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4302–4303 |
| Holocene calendar | 11201 |
| Igbo calendar | 201–202 |
| Iranian calendar | 579–580 |
| Islamic calendar | 597–598 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōji 3 / Kennin 1 (建仁元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1201 MCCI |
| Korean calendar | 3534 |
| Minguo calendar | 711 before ROC 民前711年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1743–1744 |
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Year 1201 (MCCI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- July 31 – Attempted usurpation of the throne of the Byzantine Empire by John Komnenos the Fat; he is overthrown and decapitated by the end of the day.
- John, King of England, puts an embargo on wheat exported to Flanders in an attempt to force an allegiance between the states. He also puts a levy of a fifteenth on the value of cargo exported to France, and disallows the export of wool to France without a special license. The levies are enforced in each port by at least six men, including one churchman and one knight. John also affirms this year that judgements made by the court of Westminster are as valid as those made "before the king himself or his chief justice".[1]
- The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Albert of Buxhoeveden, Bishop of Livonia, who landed on the site with 1,500 crusaders earlier in the year.
- Boniface, Marquess of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III, Count of Champagne.
- Pope Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against the rival Emperor, Philip of Swabia.
Births
- May 30 – Theobald of Navarre (Theobald IV, Count of Champagne) (d. 1253)
- August 9 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
- October 9 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
- King Ladislaus III of Hungary (d. 1205)
- Danylo, first king of Galicia–Volhynia (d. 1264)
- Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
Deaths
- March 21 – Absalon, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1128)
- May 24 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)
- July 29 – Agnes of Merania, consort of king Philip II of France
- September 5 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- Bohemond III of Antioch (b. 1144)
References
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