1208
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| Years: 1205 1206 1207 - 1208 - 1209 1210 1211 | |
| Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s | |
| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century | |
| 1208 by topic | |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1208 MCCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1961 |
| Armenian calendar | 657 ԹՎ ՈԾԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -636 – -635 |
| Berber calendar | 2158 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1752 |
| Burmese calendar | 570 |
| Chinese calendar | 3844/3904-12-12 (丁卯年十二月十二日) — to — 3845/3905-11-22(戊辰年十一月廿二日) |
| Coptic calendar | 924 – 925 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4968 – 4969 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1263 – 1264 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1130 – 1131 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4309 – 4310 |
| Holocene calendar | 11208 |
| Iranian calendar | 586 – 587 |
| Islamic calendar | 604 – 605 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1868 (皇紀1868年) |
| Julian calendar | 1253 |
| Korean calendar | 3541 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1751 |
[edit] Events
- January 15 - Peter of Castelnau is killed by a vassal of Raymond VI of Toulouse, who is held responsible and excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.
- January 31 - Battle of Lena: Inferior Swedish forces defeat the invading Danes.
- March 24 - Pope Innocent III places England under an interdict, after King John of England rejects his choice for Archbishop of Canterbury.
- April 15- A fire breaks out in the Song Chinese capital city of Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58,097 over an area of more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded amount of other people who are trampled while attempting to flee. The government provides temporary lodging for 5,345 people in nearby Buddhist and Taoist monasteries. The collective victims of the disaster are given 160,000 strings of cash, along with 400 tons of rice. Some of the government officials who lost their homes take up residence in rented boathouses on the nearby West Lake.
- June 21 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and rival to Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, is assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach, because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.
- With the help of the newly converted local tribes of Livs and Letts, the Crusaders initiate raids into part of what is present-day Estonia; the resulting ancient fight for independence lasts until 1227.
[edit] Births
- February 2 - King James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
- Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (d. 1275)
- Möngke Khan of the Mongol Empire
- Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (d. 1265)
- Akerian Redfern of the Redfern Clan
[edit] Deaths
- April 22 - Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
- June 21 - Philip of Swabia, King of Germany
- November 9 - Sancha of Castile, queen of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
- Amhaoibh O'Rothlain, Chief of Calruidhe Cuile Cearnadhaaf:1208
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