1230

1230 (MCCXXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1230th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 230th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1230s decade. As of the start of 1230, 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:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1227 1228 1229 – 1230 – 1231 1232 1233

1230 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1230 MCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	1983
Armenian calendar	679 ԹՎ ՈՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	5980
Balinese saka calendar	1151–1152
Bengali calendar	637
Berber calendar	2180
English Regnal year	14 Hen. 3 – 15 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1774
Burmese calendar	592
Byzantine calendar	6738–6739
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3926 or 3866     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3927 or 3867
Coptic calendar	946–947
Discordian calendar	2396
Ethiopian calendar	1222–1223
Hebrew calendar	4990–4991
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1286–1287
- Shaka Samvat	1151–1152
- Kali Yuga	4330–4331
Holocene calendar	11230
Igbo calendar	230–231
Iranian calendar	608–609
Islamic calendar	627–628
Japanese calendar	Kangi 2 (寛喜２年)
Javanese calendar	1139–1140
Julian calendar	1230 MCCXXX
Korean calendar	3563
Minguo calendar	682 before ROC 民前682年
Nanakshahi calendar	−238
Thai solar calendar	1772–1773
Tibetan calendar	阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1356 or 975 or 203     — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1357 or 976 or 204

Events

By area

Africa

• Sundiata starts to rule in Mali (approximate date).
• In the West African village of Siby, Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire, forces the Malinkés to bind themselves to each other by oath.

Europe

• March 9 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
• Iberian Peninsula: Alphonso IX defeats Ibn Hud al-Yamani (known as almogàver by the Christians) at the battle of Alange. This success opens the road to Badajoz to the Leonese troops.^[1] The Portuguese king Sancho II continues his offensive southward and takes Beja, Juromenha, Serpa and Moura.^[2]
• September 24 – The Kingdoms of León and Galicia unite with the Kingdoms of Castile and Toledo under Ferdinand III.
• The Teutonic Knights are invited into Prussia to forcibly convert the Prussians and Yatvags to Christianity.

By topic

Arts

• The Carmina Burana poetry and song collection is created (approximate date).^[3]

Births

• Eudes of Burgundy (d. 1266)
• Hu Sansheng, Chinese historian (d. 1302)

Deaths

• May 2 – William de Braose (hanged)
• July 28 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
• September 23 – Alfonso IX of Leon (b. 1171)
• October 25 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
• December 15 – Otakar I of Bohemia
• December 23 – Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
• Xia Gui, Chinese painter (b. c. 1180) (approximate date).

References

1. Peter Linehan (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–699. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
2. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
3. Carmina Burana. Die Lieder der Benediktbeurer Handschrift. Zweisprachige Ausgabe, hg. u. übers. v. Carl Fischer und Hugo Kuhn, dtv, München 1991; wenn man dagegen z. B. CB 211 und 211a jeweils als zwei Lieder zählt, kommt man auf insgesamt 315 Texte in der Sammlung, so auch Dieter Schaller, Carmina Burana, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Bd. 2, Artemis Verlag, München und Zürich 1983, Sp. 1513