1210

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1207 1208 1209 – 1210 – 1211 1212 1213

1210 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1210 in poetry

1210 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1210 MCCX
Ab urbe condita	1963
Armenian calendar	659 ԹՎ ՈԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	5960
Bengali calendar	617
Berber calendar	2160
English Regnal year	11 Joh. 1 – 12 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1754
Burmese calendar	572
Byzantine calendar	6718–6719
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3906 or 3846     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3907 or 3847
Coptic calendar	926–927
Discordian calendar	2376
Ethiopian calendar	1202–1203
Hebrew calendar	4970–4971
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1266–1267
- Shaka Samvat	1132–1133
- Kali Yuga	4311–4312
Holocene calendar	11210
Igbo calendar	210–211
Iranian calendar	588–589
Islamic calendar	606–607
Japanese calendar	Jōgen (Kamakura period) 4 (承元４年)
Julian calendar	1210 MCCX
Korean calendar	3543
Minguo calendar	702 before ROC 民前702年
Thai solar calendar	1752–1753

Year 1210 (MCCX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Emperor Juntoku succeeds Emperor Tsuchimikado on the throne of Japan.
• Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, leads a Mongol campaign against the Kyrgyz.
• The Delhi Sultanate begins.

Europe

• May – The Second Parliament of Ravennika is held at Ravennika in Central Greece, resulting in a concordat between the princes of Frankish Greece and the Roman Catholic clergy.
• July 18 – Former king Sverker II of Sweden is defeated and killed by the current king Erik X in the Battle of Gestilren.
• November 18 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor is excommunicated by Pope Innocent III for invading southern Italy in defiance of the Concordat of Worms.
• November 21 – King Eric X of Sweden is coronated, which is the first known coronation of a Swedish king. Shortly thereafter, he marries the Danish princess Richeza, in order to strengthen his relationship to the Danish king Valdemar the Conqueror. Valdemar used to support king Sverker II, but through the marriage, Valdemar makes peace with his former enemy, Eric.
• King John I of England raises £100,000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy; the operation is described as an “inestimable and incomparable exaction” by contemporary sources.^[1]
• Livonian Crusade: Estonian forces defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Ümera.
• The citadel of the Acrocorinth surrenders to the Crusaders after a five-year siege.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Gottfried von Strassburg writes his epic poem Tristan (approximate date).
• 1210–1211 – Shazi makes Pen box, from Persia (Iran) or Afghanistan. It is now kept at Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C..

Nature

• September 24 – Venus occults Jupiter, the last such occurrence until 1570.

Religion

• Pope Innocent III gives oral permission to Francis of Assisi to begin the Order of Friars Minor.
• The church of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London is founded as a priory of Benedictine nuns.

Births

• May 5 – King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
• June 24 – Count Floris IV of Holland (d. 1234)
• July 22 – Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
• Ibn Nafis, Persian anatomist (d. 1288)

Deaths

• Lu You, Chinese poet (b. 1125)
• Jinul, Korean Buddhist philosopher
• July 17 – Sverker the Younger, king of Sweden 1196–1208 (b. in the 1160s) (in the Battle of Gestilren)
• Qutb-ud-din Aibak, first Muslim ruler of Delhi

References

1. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review 8 (1).