Year 1213 ( MCCXIII) was a

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of the

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Events

* May 15 – King

John of England John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empi ...

submits to Pope Innocent III, who in turn lifts the interdict of 1208 the following year. * May 30 – Battle of Damme: The English fleet under William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, destroys a French fleet off the Belgian port in the first major victory for the fledgling Royal Navy. * September 12 – Battle of Muret: The Toulousain and Aragonese forces of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon are defeated by the Albigensian Crusade, under Simon de Montfort. * Jin

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is overrun by the

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under

Genghis Khan Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan (title), khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongols, Mongol tribes, he launched Mongol invasions and ...

, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only

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remains free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege. * Pope Innocent III issues a charter calling for the Fifth Crusade to recapture Jerusalem. * Construction of Kilkenny Castle in

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is completed.

Births

* March 9 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271) * June 10 – Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian philosopher and Sufi mystic * Ibn al-Nafis, polymath (d. 1288) * Hethum I, King of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (d. 1270)

Deaths

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the C ...

– Queen

Tamar of Georgia Tamar the Great ( ka, თამარ მეფე, tr , ; 1160 – 18 January 1213) queen regnant, reigned as the List of monarchs of Georgia#Kings of unified Georgia (1008–1490), Queen of Kingdom of Georgia, Georgia from 1184 to 1213, ...

(b. c. 1160) * April 13 – Guy of Thouars, regent of Brittany * April 21 – Maria of Montpellier, Lady of Montpellier, Queen of Aragon (b. 1182) * September 12 – King Peter II of Aragon (killed in battle) (b. 1174) * September 28 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort regent of Hungary ( murdered) (b. 1185) * October 10 – Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine * October 14 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex * Sharafeddin Tusi, Persian mathematician (b. 1135)

References

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