Events

• August 24 – John of England weds 13 year old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.

• The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.

• The Mongols defeat Northern China.

• Buddhism declines in India (approximate date).

• Saint Elisabeth of Hungary d.1207–1231

• The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.

Births

• Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician (d. 1265)

• Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet (d. 1278)

• Adam Marsh, English Franciscan (approximate date; d. 1259)

• John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry (d. 1240)

• Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler (approximate date; d. 1259)

• Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (d. 1270)

• January 19—Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen (d. 1253)

• 7 July- Elisabeth of Hungary Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia (d.1207)

• Sant Dnyaneshwar, Indian Marathi Saint, philosopher and poet (1275–1296)

• Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (1236–1253)

Maps of 1200 AD

Map of major states in 1200 before the rise of the Mongols.

Map of the Eastern Hemisphere circa 1200

Deaths

• Count Joscelin III of Edessa

• April 23—Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)

• December—Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar

• Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)

• Ibn al-Razzaz al-Raziri, Arabian scientist (approximate date)