| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1218 MCCXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1971 |
| Armenian calendar | 667 ԹՎ ՈԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5968 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1139–1140 |
| 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 | 1139–1140 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4318–4319 |
| Holocene calendar | 11218 |
| Igbo calendar | 218–219 |
| Iranian calendar | 596–597 |
| Islamic calendar | 614–615 |
| Japanese calendar | Kenpō 6 (建保６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1126–1127 |
| Julian calendar | 1218 MCCXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3551 |
| Minguo calendar | 694 before ROC 民前694年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −250 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1760–1761 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1344 or 963 or 191 — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1345 or 964 or 192 |
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.
- May 30 – 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 – The 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 León grants a royal charter to 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 – Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shōgun (d. 1256)
- May 1
- October 30 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
- date unknown
- Abel, King of Denmark (d. 1252)
- Yolande of Brittany, Breton countess, French regent (d. 1272)
- Sir Maurice de Berkeley, English knight (d. 1281)
- approximate
- Marie de Coucy, French-born queen consort of Scotland (d. 1285)
- Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler of Persia (d. 1265)
- Irene Komnene Palaiologina, member of the Byzantine imperial family and nun (d. 1284)
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 – Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
- November 12 – Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff
- December 28 – Robert II, Count of Dreux (b. 1154)
- date unknown
- Al-Adil I, Egyptian general and ruler, Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia (b. 1145)
- Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)
- Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire (b. 1125)
- approximate date – Umadevi, Indian queen and general (b. 1150)
References
- ^ "BBC Wales History". Archived from the original on November 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–671. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
- ^ 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.