Years: 1215 1216 1217 – 1218 – 1219 1220 1221

Decades: 1180s 1190s 1200s – 1210s – 1220s 1230s 1240s

Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century

1218 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

1218 in poetry v • d • e

1218 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1218 MCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1971
Armenian calendar	667 ԹՎ ՈԿԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-626 – -625
Bengali calendar	625
Berber calendar	2168
Buddhist calendar	1762
Burmese calendar	580
Byzantine calendar	6726 – 6727
Chinese calendar	丁丑年十二月初三日 (3854/3914-12-3) — to — 戊寅年十二月十二日 (3855/3915-12-12)
Coptic calendar	934 – 935
Ethiopian calendar	1210 – 1211
Hebrew calendar	4978 – 4979
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1273 – 1274
- Shaka Samvat	1140 – 1141
- Kali Yuga	4319 – 4320
Holocene calendar	11218
Iranian calendar	596 – 597
Islamic calendar	614 – 615
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3551
Thai solar calendar	1761
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Ongoing events

[edit] Events

• May 24 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade.
• The Livonian Brothers of the Sword begin to conquer Estonia.
• Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes Udaijin of Japan.
• Alfonso IX of Castile founds the University of Salamanca.
• Genghis Khan destroys Kara-Khitai.
• Genghis Khan's Mongols, under the leadership of his eldest son Jochi, conduct a second campaign against the Kyrgyz.
• Genghis Khan proposes to the Khwarazm shah of Persia that he accept Mongol overlordship and establish trade relations.
• Saint Pedro Nolasco founds the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy in Barcelona, Spain.

[edit] Births

• February 12 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
• May 1 – John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
• May 1 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1291)
• October 30 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
• Abel of Denmark (d. 1252)
• Sir Maurice de Berkeley, English knight (d. 1281)

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
• May 19 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
• June 25 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
• July 6 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
• December 30 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
• Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and ruler (b. 1145)
• Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
• Hugh I of Cyprus

[edit] Ongoing events

• Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)