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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1195 1196 1197 – 1198 – 1199 1200 1201

1198 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1198 in poetry v • d • e

1198 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1198 MCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1951
Armenian calendar	647 ԹՎ ՈԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-646 – -645
Bengali calendar	605
Berber calendar	2148
Buddhist calendar	1742
Burmese calendar	560
Byzantine calendar	6706 – 6707
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十一月廿二日 (3834/3894-11-22) — to — 戊午年十二月初二日 (3835/3895-12-2)
Coptic calendar	914 – 915
Ethiopian calendar	1190 – 1191
Hebrew calendar	4958 – 4959
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1253 – 1254
- Shaka Samvat	1120 – 1121
- Kali Yuga	4299 – 4300
Holocene calendar	11198
Iranian calendar	576 – 577
Islamic calendar	594 – 595
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3531
Thai solar calendar	1741
v • d • e

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• January 8—Pope Innocent III succeeds Pope Celestine III as the 176th pope.
• March – Philip of Swabia is elected King of Germany by his supporters.
• July – Otto of Brunswick is crowned King of Germany by the House of Welf.
• Frederick II, infant son of German King Henry VI, is crowned King of Sicily.

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Tsuchimikado succeeds Emperor Go-Toba on the throne of Japan.

[edit] Births

• August 24—King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
• Ertugrul, Turkish leader, father of Osman I (d. 1281)
• Ferdinand III of Castile (d. 1252)
• Sybilla of Lusignan, wife of Leo II of Armenia (d. c. 1230)

[edit] Deaths

• January 8—Pope Celestine III (b. c. 1106)
• March 11—Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
• April 16—Duke Frederick I of Austria (b. c. 1175)
• June 2—Lord Ygo III of Galama, Frisian knight and nobleman (b. 1139)
• September 1—Dulce, Queen of Portugal, wife of King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1160)
• November 27—Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
• December 11—Averroes, Arab philosopher and physician (b. 1126)
• Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, last High King of Ireland
• Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1150)
• William III of Sicily (b. 1190)
• William of Newburgh, English historian (b. 1135)