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The Chinese build an observatory that allows them to calculate with high precision the length of the year by measuring shadows projected on the ground. See also 1000 Astronomy; 1400 Astronomy.

A chronicler of about this time reports that the Romanesque transept tower of the Beverley Minster has collapsed. He blames this on the architects' having sacrificed a strong structure to achieve an artistic effect. See also 1284 Construction.

The administration of land drainage in the Low Countries (primarily what is now the Netherlands) becomes invested in a central organization known as the Hoogheemradschappen, or Main Polder Boards. See also 1556 Food & agriculture.

At Mesa Verde (southern Colorado), the Anasazi build pueblos in the face of large cliffs -- probably for defensive purposes. These survive fairly well today, protected by the overhang of the cliffs, but they are not as well built as earlier pueblos, such as those at Chaco Canyon (New Mexico), which date from 100 to 200 years earlier. See also 1100 Construction.

About this time the original version of Kalmarnahaus, or Kalmar Castle, an island fortress, is erected in Sweden. It is rebuilt and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries, although part of the 13th-century castle still remains. See also 1197 Construction; 1222 Construction.

Coal mines are operating in pits in Great Britain on the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, Scotland, and in Northumberland. See also 1307 Ecology & the environment.

Houses with chimneys gradually become common, although chimneys had been in use earlier for bakers' ovens and for smelting.

Buckwheat is grown in Europe.

The Catalan forge emerges in Catalonia, Spain, for smelting iron. Using a column of falling water to push air into the mixture of iron ore and burning charcoal, the forge is now considered a predecessor to the blast furnace. The resulting iron is used as the basis for wrought iron. See also 800 Materials; 1340 Materials.

This article is about the year 1200. For the turntable, see Technics SL-1200.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1197 1198 1199 – 1200 – 1201 1202 1203

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State leaders – Sovereign states

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1200 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1200 MCC
Ab urbe condita	1953
Armenian calendar	649 ԹՎ ՈԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5950
Bahá'í calendar	-644–-643
Bengali calendar	607
Berber calendar	2150
English Regnal year	1 Joh. 1 – 2 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1744
Burmese calendar	562
Byzantine calendar	6708–6709
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月十三日 (3836/3896-12-13) — to — 庚申年十一月廿四日 (3837/3897-11-24)
Coptic calendar	916–917
Ethiopian calendar	1192–1193
Hebrew calendar	4960–4961
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1256–1257
- Shaka Samvat	1122–1123
- Kali Yuga	4301–4302
Holocene calendar	11200
Iranian calendar	578–579
Islamic calendar	596–597
Japanese calendar
Julian calendar	1200    MCC
Korean calendar	3533
Minguo calendar	712 before ROC 民前712年
Thai solar calendar	1743
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Major states in 1200 before the rise of the Mongols

The eastern hemisphere in 1200

Year 1200 (MCC) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• August 24 – After touring an army through Aquitaine to assert his right to it,^[1] John of England weds 13 year old Isabella of Angoulême at Bordeaux.
• The Iroquois invade modern-day Ohio from the north.
• The Mongols defeat Northern China.
• The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.
• The rebel Ivanko is captured and executed by the Byzantine general Alexios Palaiologos

Births

• January 19 – Dogen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (d. 1253)
• 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)
• Mindaugas, Great king of Lithuania (born c. 1200, d. 1253)

Deaths

• April 23 – Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher (b. 1130)
• December – Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Count Joscelin III of Edessa
• Beatritz de Dia (approximate date)
• Ibn al-Razzaz al-Raziri, Arabian scientist (approximate date)

References

1. ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 64

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