1212

1212 (MCCXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1212th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 212th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1210s decade. As of the start of 1212, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1209 1210 1211 – 1212 – 1213 1214 1215

1212 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1212 MCCXII
Ab urbe condita	1965
Armenian calendar	661 ԹՎ ՈԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5962
Balinese saka calendar	1133–1134
Bengali calendar	619
Berber calendar	2162
English Regnal year	13 Joh. 1 – 14 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1756
Burmese calendar	574
Byzantine calendar	6720–6721
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3908 or 3848     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3909 or 3849
Coptic calendar	928–929
Discordian calendar	2378
Ethiopian calendar	1204–1205
Hebrew calendar	4972–4973
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1268–1269
- Shaka Samvat	1133–1134
- Kali Yuga	4312–4313
Holocene calendar	11212
Igbo calendar	212–213
Iranian calendar	590–591
Islamic calendar	608–609
Japanese calendar	Kenryaku 2 (建暦２年)
Javanese calendar	1120–1121
Julian calendar	1212 MCCXII
Korean calendar	3545
Minguo calendar	700 before ROC 民前700年
Nanakshahi calendar	−256
Thai solar calendar	1754–1755
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1338 or 957 or 185     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 1339 or 958 or 186

Events

• July 10 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground
• Battle of Navas de Tolosa
• Children's crusade
• Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain
• In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese prose

Births

• March 22 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (died 1234)
• May 6– Constantia of Austria, Margravine of Meissen (died 1243)
• Yolande of Jerusalem (died 1228)
• Malatesta da Verucchio, Italian condottiero, founder of the Malatesta family (died 1312)
• Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants (died 1272)

Deaths

• March 26 – King Sancho I of Portugal (born 1154)
• April 12 – Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1154)
• October 9 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
• November 4 – Felix of Valois, French saint (born 1127)
• December 12 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (born 1152)
• Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
• William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale,
• Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, 5th Lord of Annandale
• Margaret of Huntingdon, eldest daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife (born 1180)
• Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (born 1192)
• Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England
• Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (born 1156)
• Honen Shonin, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (born 1133)
• Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor