Events

• June 17 – Stephen Langton is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Innocent III.

• Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.

• King John issues letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool.

• November – Leeds, then a market town, received its first charter.

• Hōnen and his followers are exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings.

• Before 1207 - Kosho makes Kuya Preaching. Kamakura period. It is now kept at Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto.

Births

• September 8 – King Sancho II of Portugal

• September 30 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (d. 1273)

• October 1 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)

• Henry II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1248)

• Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (d. 1231)

• Philip I of Savoy (d. 1285)

Deaths

• January 4 – Simon II, Duke of Lorraine

• June 17 – Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130)

• Amaury of Bene, French theologian and 'heretic'

• Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria

• David Soslan, King Consort of Georgia

• Xin Qiji, Chinese general and poet (b. 1140)

• Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (b. 1152)

Head of State in 1207

• France – Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)

• Mongol Empire – Genghis Khan, Mongol Khan (from 1206 to 1227)

• Venice – Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (ruled from 1205 to 1229)

• England – John King of England (reigned from 1199 to 1216)

• Latin Empire of Constantinople – Henry of Flanders (reigned from 1205 to 1216)

• Pope – Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)