1219

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1216 1217 1218 – 1219 – 1220 1221 1222

1219 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1219 in poetry

1219 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1219 MCCXIX
Ab urbe condita	1972
Armenian calendar	668 ԹՎ ՈԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	5969
Bengali calendar	626
Berber calendar	2169
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 3 – 4 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1763
Burmese calendar	581
Byzantine calendar	6727–6728
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3915 or 3855     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3916 or 3856
Coptic calendar	935–936
Discordian calendar	2385
Ethiopian calendar	1211–1212
Hebrew calendar	4979–4980
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1275–1276
- Shaka Samvat	1141–1142
- Kali Yuga	4320–4321
Holocene calendar	11219
Igbo calendar	219–220
Iranian calendar	597–598
Islamic calendar	615–616
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 7 / Jōkyū 1 (承久元年)
Julian calendar	1219 MCCXIX
Korean calendar	3552
Minguo calendar	693 before ROC 民前693年
Thai solar calendar	1761–1762

Year 1219 (MCCXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• November 5 – Damietta, Egypt falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
• Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade.
• The Egyptian city of Al Mansurah is founded.

Asia

• By letter, Genghis Khan summons Qiu Chuji (Chongchan) to visit him to advise him on the medicine of immortality (the Philosopher's Stone)
• The Hojo family, vassals of the Shogun, reduce him to a figurehead.

Europe

• June 15 – Livonian Crusade: Danish crusaders led by King Valdemar II conquer Tallinn in the Battle of Lyndanisse. What is to become the flag of Denmark allegedly falls from the sky during that battle. Their stronghold in Tallinn will help the Danes conquer the entire Northern Estonia. The Dannebrog remains the national flag of Denmark.
• Twenty-four Lithuanian dukes and nobles purportedly sign a peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia, stating common cause against invading Christian Crusaders.^[1]
• Upon the death of Aymeric of Saint Maur, Alan Marcell becomes master of the Temple in England.^[2]
• The East Frisian island of Burchana is broken up in a North Sea flood.

By topic

Technology

• The windmill is first introduced to China with the travels of Yelü Chucai to Transoxiana.

Births

• Christopher I of Denmark (d. 1259)
• Guillaume de Gisors, Grand Master of the fictional Priory of Sion (d. 1307)
• Ariq Boke, the youngest son of Tolui and the 5th Khagan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1266)

Deaths

• February 13 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
• May 5 – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
• May 14 – William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1146)
• June 17 – David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon
• November 3 – Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel
• Raymond-Roupen of Antioch
• John de Courcy, knight and Earl of Ulster (b. 1160)
• Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople
• Yolanda of Flanders, wife and regent of Peter of Courtenay
• Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire (b. 1181)

References

1. Butkevičienė, Birutė; Vytautas Gricius (July 2003). "Mindaugas — Lietuvos karalius". Mokslas ir gyvenimas (in Lithuanian) 7 (547). Retrieved 2007-05-30.
2. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review 8 (1).