1200
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1197 1198 1199 – 1200 – 1201 1202 1203 |
| 1200 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1200 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1200 MCC |
| Ab urbe condita | 1953 |
| Armenian calendar | 649 ԹՎ ՈԽԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -644 – -643 |
| Bengali calendar | 607 |
| Berber calendar | 2150 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1744 |
| Burmese calendar | 562 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6708 – 6709 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十二月十三日 (3836/3896-12-13) — to —
庚申年十一月廿四日(3837/3897-11-24) |
| Coptic calendar | 916 – 917 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1192 – 1193 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4960 – 4961 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1256 – 1257 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1122 – 1123 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4301 – 4302 |
| Holocene calendar | 11200 |
| Iranian calendar | 578 – 579 |
| Islamic calendar | 596 – 597 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3533 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1743 |
Contents |
Events
- August 24 – John of England weds 13 year old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
- The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.
- The Mongols defeat Northern China.
- Buddhism declines in India (approximate date).
- The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.
- Itza culture ends in Mesoamerica.
Births
- Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)
- Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)
- Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; d. 1259)
- John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)
- Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)
- Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)
- January 19—Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen (d. 1253)
- Sant Dnyaneshwar, Indian Marathi Saint, philosopher and poet (1275–1296)
- Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (1236–1253)
Maps of 1200 AD
Map of major states in 1200 before the rise of the Mongols.
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere circa 1200
Deaths
- Count Joscelin III of Edessa
- April 23—Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
- December—Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)
- Ibn al-Razzaz al-Raziri, Arabian scientist (approximate date)