1207

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Year 1207 (MCCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Before 1207 – Kosho makes Kuya Preaching. Kamakura period. It is now kept at Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto.
• Hōnen and his followers are exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings.

Europe

• February 2 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
• November – Leeds, a market town in England, receives its first charter.
• 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.

By topic

Markets

• First evidence of forced loans in Venice. This technique becomes the staple of public finance in Europe until the 16th century.^[1]

Religion

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

Births

• July 7 – Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (d. 1231)
• 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)
• 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)

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