1230

This article is about the year 1230.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1227 1228 1229 – 1230 – 1231 1232 1233

1230 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1230 in poetry

1230 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1230 MCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	1983
Armenian calendar	679 ԹՎ ՈՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	5980
Bengali calendar	637
Berber calendar	2180
English Regnal year	14 Hen. 3 – 15 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1774
Burmese calendar	592
Byzantine calendar	6738–6739
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3926 or 3866     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3927 or 3867
Coptic calendar	946–947
Discordian calendar	2396
Ethiopian calendar	1222–1223
Hebrew calendar	4990–4991
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1286–1287
- Shaka Samvat	1152–1153
- Kali Yuga	4331–4332
Holocene calendar	11230
Igbo calendar	230–231
Iranian calendar	608–609
Islamic calendar	627–628
Japanese calendar	Kangi 2 (寛喜２年)
Julian calendar	1230 MCCXXX
Korean calendar	3563
Minguo calendar	682 before ROC 民前682年
Thai solar calendar	1772–1773

Year 1230 (MCCXXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• Sundiata starts to rule in Mali (approximate date).
• In the West African village of Siby, Sundiata Keita, founder of the Mali Empire, forces the Malinkés to bind themselves to each other by oath.

Asia

• August 10–12 – Sultan Kayqubad I of Rum defeats Shah Jalal ad-Din of Persia in the Battle of Yassıçemen, ending the Khwarazmian dynasty

Europe

• March 9 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats the Emperor of Thessalonica Theodore Komnenos Doukas at the Battle of Klokotnitsa. In its aftermath, Bulgaria quickly extends its control over most of Theodore's domains in Thrace, Macedonia, and Albania. The Latin Duchy of Philippopolis and the independent principality of Alexius Slav are also captured and annexed into Bulgaria.

• Iberian Peninsula: Alfonso IX defeats Ibn Hud al-Yamani (known as Almogàver by the Christians) at the battle of Alange. This success opens the road to Badajoz to the Leonese troops. The Portuguese king Sancho II continues his offensive southward and takes Beja, Juromenha, Serpa and Moura.
• September 24 – The Kingdoms of León and Galicia unite with the Kingdoms of Castile and Toledo under Ferdinand III.
• The Teutonic Knights are invited into Prussia to forcibly convert the Prussians and Yatvags to Christianity.

By topic

Arts

• The Carmina Burana poetry and song collection is created (approximate date).

Births

• Eudes of Burgundy (d. 1266)
• Hu Sanxing, Chinese historian (d. 1302)
• Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1288)

Deaths

• May 2 – William de Braose (hanged)
• July 28 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
• September 23 – Alfonso IX of León (b. 1171)
• October 25 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1180)
• December 15 – Otakar I of Bohemia
• December 23 – Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
• Xia Gui, Chinese painter (b. c. 1180) (approximate date).