1208

This article is about the year 1208. For the punk band, see 1208 (band).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s
Years:	1205 1206 1207 – 1208 – 1209 1210 1211

1208 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1208 in poetry

1208 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1208 MCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1961
Armenian calendar	657 ԹՎ ՈԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	5958
Bengali calendar	615
Berber calendar	2158
English Regnal year	9 Joh. 1 – 10 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1752
Burmese calendar	570
Byzantine calendar	6716–6717
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3904 or 3844 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3905 or 3845
Coptic calendar	924–925
Discordian calendar	2374
Ethiopian calendar	1200–1201
Hebrew calendar	4968–4969
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1264–1265
- Shaka Samvat	1130–1131
- Kali Yuga	4309–4310
Holocene calendar	11208
Igbo calendar	208–209
Iranian calendar	586–587
Islamic calendar	604–605
Japanese calendar	Jōgen (Kamakura period) 2 (承元２年)
Julian calendar	1208 MCCVIII
Korean calendar	3541
Minguo calendar	704 before ROC 民前704年
Thai solar calendar	1750–1751

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Year 1208 (MCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

April 15 – A fire breaks out in the Song Chinese capital city of Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58,097 houses over an area of more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded number of other people who are trampled while attempting to flee. The government provides temporary lodging for 5,345 people in nearby Buddhist and Taoist monasteries. The collective victims of the disaster are given 160,000 strings of cash, along with 400 tons of rice. Some of the government officials who lost their homes take up residence in rented boathouses on the nearby West Lake.

January 15 – Peter of Castelnau is killed by a vassal of Raymond VI of Toulouse, who is held responsible and excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.
January 31 – Battle of Lena: Inferior Swedish forces defeat the invading Danes and king Sverker the Younger is deposed as king of Sweden. He is succeeded by his rival Erik Knutsson.
March 24 – Pope Innocent III places England under an interdict as punishment for King John of England rejecting his choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. Under the interdict, Church sacraments including marriage and consecrated burial are probably stopped, but there is no sign of the popular discontent which interdicts are intended to produce over the next several years.^[1]
June 21 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and rival to Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, is assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach, because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.
Livonian Crusade: With the help of the newly converted local tribes of Livs and Letts, the crusader Livonian Brothers of the Sword initiate raids into Ugandi County in southern Estonia. The resulting Estonian ancient fight for independence lasts until 1227.

↑ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 171