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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1196 1197 1198 – 1199 – 1200 1201 1202

1199 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

1199 in poetry v • d • e

1199 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1199 MCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1952
Armenian calendar	648 ԹՎ ՈԽԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-645 – -644
Bengali calendar	606
Berber calendar	2149
Buddhist calendar	1743
Burmese calendar	561
Byzantine calendar	6707 – 6708
Chinese calendar	戊午年十二月初三日 (3835/3895-12-3) — to — 己未年十二月十二日 (3836/3896-12-12)
Coptic calendar	915 – 916
Ethiopian calendar	1191 – 1192
Hebrew calendar	4959 – 4960
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1254 – 1255
- Shaka Samvat	1121 – 1122
- Kali Yuga	4300 – 4301
Holocene calendar	11199
Iranian calendar	577 – 578
Islamic calendar	595 – 596
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3532
Thai solar calendar	1742
v • d • e

This page is about the year 1199. For the labor union, see Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union.

[edit] Events

• March 25 – King Richard I of England is shot in the left shoulder with a crossbow by French boy Pierre Basile. Richard is not mortally wounded by the bolt; however, the wound results in gangrene.
• April 6 – King Richard I of England dies from the crossbow wound at the siege of Châlus. His younger brother, John Lackland, becomes King of England. As a result of Richard's death, French warrior Mercadier has Pierre Basile flayed alive and hanged.
• St. Laurence Church in Ludlow is rebuilt on its Norman foundations.

[edit] Births

• Jeanne of Flanders, countess of Flanders (d. 1244)
• Isobel of Huntingdon, daughter of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1251)
• King Guttorm of Norway (d. 1204)

[edit] Deaths

• January 23—Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
• February 9—Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
• April 6—Richard the Lionheart (King of England) (in battle) (b. 1157)
• September 4—Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)