1200

1200 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1200 MCC
Ab urbe condita	1953
Armenian calendar	649 ԹՎ ՈԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5950
Balinese saka calendar	1121–1122
Bengali calendar	607
Berber calendar	2150
English Regnal year	1 Joh. 1 – 2 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1744
Burmese calendar	562
Byzantine calendar	6708–6709
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3896 or 3836     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3897 or 3837
Coptic calendar	916–917
Discordian calendar	2366
Ethiopian calendar	1192–1193
Hebrew calendar	4960–4961
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1256–1257
- Shaka Samvat	1121–1122
- Kali Yuga	4300–4301
Holocene calendar	11200
Igbo calendar	200–201
Iranian calendar	578–579
Islamic calendar	596–597
Japanese calendar	Shōji 2 (正治２年)
Javanese calendar	1108–1109
Julian calendar	1200 MCC
Korean calendar	3533
Minguo calendar	712 before ROC 民前712年
Nanakshahi calendar	−268
Thai solar calendar	1742–1743
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1326 or 945 or 173     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1327 or 946 or 174

1200 (MCC) was a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. In the proleptic Gregorian calendar, it was a century leap year.

Events

• University of Paris received charter from Philip II of France
• The Kanem-Bornu Empire was established in northern Africa around the year 1200
• Mongol victory over Northern China — 30,000,000 killed

Births

• Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (died 1265)
• Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (died 1278)
• Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; died 1259)
• John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry
• Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; died 1259)
• Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (died 1270)
• Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen (died 1253)

Deaths

• Joscelin III of Edessa
• Zhu Xi, Chinese philosopher (born 1130)
• Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar