| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1231 MCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1984 |
| Armenian calendar | 680 ԹՎ ՈՁ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5981 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1152–1153 |
| Bengali calendar | 638 |
| Berber calendar | 2181 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 3 – 16 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1775 |
| Burmese calendar | 593 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6739–6740 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3927 or 3867 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3928 or 3868 |
| Coptic calendar | 947–948 |
| Discordian calendar | 2397 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1223–1224 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4991–4992 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1287–1288 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1152–1153 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4331–4332 |
| Holocene calendar | 11231 |
| Igbo calendar | 231–232 |
| Iranian calendar | 609–610 |
| Islamic calendar | 628–629 |
| Japanese calendar | Kangi 3 (寛喜３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1140–1141 |
| Julian calendar | 1231 MCCXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3564 |
| Minguo calendar | 681 before ROC 民前681年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −237 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1773–1774 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1357 or 976 or 204 — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1358 or 977 or 205 |
Year 1231 (MCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- April 9 – After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou in Song dynasty China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day. Fighting the flames is difficult due to limited visibility. When the fires are extinguished, it is discovered that an entire district of some 10,000 houses in the southeast of the city have been consumed by the flames.
- Mongol troops cross the Yalu River into Korea, at this time under the Goryeo Kingdom.
Europe
- Italy: Emperor Frederick II promulgates the Constitutions of Melfi (also known as Liber Augustalis), a collection of laws for Sicily, as well as the edict of Salerno, regulating the exercise of medicine and separating the professions of physician and apothecary and requiring medical schools to practice dissection.[1]
- Llywelyn the Great launches a campaign against the Norman lordships in Wales.
- Spain: The Castillans reconquer the city of Quesada.[2]
- University of Cambridge granted a Royal Charter by King Henry III.
By topic
Religion
Births
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Emperor Shijō
- March 17 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (d. 1242)
- Guo Shoujing, Chinese astronomer and mathematician
- John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (d. 1304)
- Yolanda of Vianden, prioress (d. 1283)
- Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore (d. 1282)
Deaths
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- April 6 – William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
- June 13 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
- August 28 – Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark (b. c. 1211)
- November 6 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
- November 17 – Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Hungarian princess and saint (b. 1207)
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abbasid Arab physician and traveller
- Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, last ruler of the Khwarezmian Empire
References
- ^ Rashdall, Hastings (1895). The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Clarendon Press. p. 85. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
- ^ Peter Linehan (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. 668–673. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.