1200

This article is about the year 1200. For the number, see 1200 (number). For the turntable, see Technics SL-1200.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1197 1198 1199 – 1200 – 1201 1202 1203

1200 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1200 in poetry

1200 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1200 MCC
Ab urbe condita	1953
Armenian calendar	649 ԹՎ ՈԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5950
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	1122–1123
- Kali Yuga	4301–4302
Holocene calendar	11200
Igbo calendar	200–201
Iranian calendar	578–579
Islamic calendar	596–597
Japanese calendar	Shōji 2 (正治２年)
Julian calendar	1200 MCC
Korean calendar	3533
Minguo calendar	712 before ROC 民前712年
Thai solar calendar	1742–1743

The eastern hemisphere in 1200

Year 1200 (MCC) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• August 24 – After touring an army through Aquitaine to assert his right to it, John of England marries 12-year-old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
• The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.
• The Mongols defeat Northern China.
• The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.
• The rebel Ivanko is captured and executed by the Byzantine general Alexios Palaiologos

Births

• January 19 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (d. 1253)
• Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)
• Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)
• Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; d. 1259)
• John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)
• Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)
• Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)
• Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (born c. 1200, d. 1263)
• William of Sherwood, English logician (approximate date; d. c.1272)

Deaths

• April 23 – Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
• December – Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Count Joscelin III of Edessa
• Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)