1218

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1215 1216 1217 – 1218 – 1219 1220 1221

1218 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1218 in poetry

1218 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1218 MCCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1971
Armenian calendar	667 ԹՎ ՈԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	5968
Bengali calendar	625
Berber calendar	2168
English Regnal year	2 Hen. 3 – 3 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1762
Burmese calendar	580
Byzantine calendar	6726–6727
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3914 or 3854     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3915 or 3855
Coptic calendar	934–935
Discordian calendar	2384
Ethiopian calendar	1210–1211
Hebrew calendar	4978–4979
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1274–1275
- Shaka Samvat	1140–1141
- Kali Yuga	4319–4320
Holocene calendar	11218
Igbo calendar	218–219
Iranian calendar	596–597
Islamic calendar	614–615
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 6 (建保６年)
Julian calendar	1218 MCCXVIII
Korean calendar	3551
Minguo calendar	694 before ROC 民前694年
Thai solar calendar	1760–1761

Year 1218 (MCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• August 31 – Al-Kamil becomes the new Egyptian Sultan on the death of his father Al-Adil.

Asia

• May 24 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• Damietta is besieged by the knights of the Fifth Crusade.
• Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes Udaijin of Japan.
• The Kara-Khitan Khanate is destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry.
• 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.

Europe

• March – Treaty of Worcester recognises Llywelyn the Great as regent of south Wales.^[1]
• July – Spain: In order to facilitate the movement of Reconquista, Pope Honorius III reverses Innocent III’s earlier judgement and declares Ferdinand III of Castile legitimate heir to the Kingdom of Leon.^[2]

By topic

Education

• Alfonso IX of Castile founds the University of Salamanca.

Markets

• The northern French city of Rheims emits the first recorded public life annuity in medieval Europe. Theretofore, this type of instrument had been mostly issued by religious institutions. The emission by Rheims is the first evidence of a consolidation of public debt that is to become common in the Langue d'Oïl, the Low Countries and Germany.^[3]

Religion

• Saint Pedro Nolasco founds the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy in Barcelona, Spain.

Births

• February 12 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
• May 1
  • John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)
  • 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)

Deaths

• January 10 – Hugh I of Cyprus
• February 2 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
• February 18 – Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen (b. 1160)
• 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)
• August 31 – Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and ruler, Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia (b. 1145)
• November 12 – Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
• December 28 – Robert II, Count of Dreux (b. 1154)
• December 30 – Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)

References

1. "BBC Wales History". Archived from the original on 2007-11-25. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
2. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia. The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–671. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
3. Zuijderduijn, Jaco (2009). Medieval Capital Markets. Markets for renten, state formation and private investment in Holland (1300-1550). Leiden; Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-9-00417565-5.