1208
This page relates to the year 1208 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Asia
- Gengis Khan completes the conquest of the Turkestan.
Europe
- January 14th: Assassination of the Legate of the pope, Pierre de Castelnau by a rider of Raymond VI of Toulouse to Saint-Gilles. The Légat had just excommunicated Raymond VI for his leniency towards the Cathares. Traditionally the historians make go up with this event the beginning of the Croisade against the Albigensian.
- January 31st: Victoire of Eric X of Sweden on its candidate Sverker II, supported by the Denmark, with the battle of Kungslena.
- March 10th: The pope Innocent III calls with the Croisade against the Albigensians by a bubble.
- March 23rd: The pope Innocent III throws the interdict on the kingdom of England after his conflict with Jean without Ground on the nomination of the archbishop of Canterbury. Any religious ceremony is prohibited, and the subjects are untied of their fidelity to the sovereign.
- June 3rd: Charter of Albert de Cuyck granted the middle-class men of Liege by the emperor Philippe de Souabe.
- June 21st: Othon IV of Brunswick makes assassinate its rival Philippe de Souabe by his ally Otton de Wittelsbach.
- November 11th: Othon IV of Brunswick is elected emperor with Francfort-sur-le-Main then is made crown by the pope Innocent III the October 4th 1209.
- Léopold VI of Austria gives to Vienna an administrative payment, the Stradtrecht . The city develops. Kleber (1208 - 1417), the Poll (1239 - 1539) and Würfel (1285 - 1523) are successively aldermen of Vienna.
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the Chevaliers carry-swords are implied in quarrels of tribes to the country of the Estes.
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Victoire of the Latin emperor of the East Henri de Hainaut on the Bulgarian and the Byzantines of Theodore Lascaris, Greek emperor of Nicée, with Philippopoli. Henri undertakes conquests in Bithynie and in Mysie with depend on the Greeks of Nicée. Skilful diplomat, it succeeds in getting along with the orthodoxe clergy and thus attracting himself the sympathy of the indigenous population.
Art & culture
- Foundation of the University of Palencia, the first university of Spain, (moved in 1321).
Economy
Births in 1208
- February 2nd: Jacques Ier d' Aragon says the Conqueror (death 1276)
- Boleslas Ier de Mazovie (death 1248)
- Simon V of Montfort, 6th count de Leicester and count de Chester (death 1265)
Death in 1208
- January 14th: Pierre de Castelnau, legal pontifical
- November 9th: Sancha de Castille, known as the Young person , widow of the king Alphonse II of Aragon.
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