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Henri, count of Hainaut, is made emperor of Romania (the Latin empire) in August (see 1205). He will reign until his death in 1216 as Henri I, defeating the Bulgars in Europe, making efforts to reconcile his Greek subjects to Latin rule, and frustrating the efforts of Theodore Lascaris (see Nicaean Empire, 1208).
Muizz-ud-Din Muhammad of Ghur is assassinated at Damyak March 15 after a reign that has helped to establish Muslim power in India, and his former viceroy Kuth-ud-Din Aibak (Qutb-ud-Din Aybak) takes over Delhi as the first independent Muslim ruler of north India. A former slave from Turkestan who was named viceroy in 1192, Aibak is technically a slave. He quickly obtains manumission and will consolidate his rule by marrying women from families with more legitimate claims to power (see 1210).
The Turkish general Ikhtiar-ud-Din Bakhtiar Khilji leads a raiding expedition to the eastern Bengal town of Lakshmanabali, near Gour, and plunders the Radha region of the Malda district as he passes through (see 1201). Turks and Afghans will vie for control of eastern Bengal for centuries.
Mongols on the Chinese border overrun the Uigurs under the leadership of their chief Temüjin (or Temüjen [Tie Mu Zhen, or Tieh Mu Chen in Chinese]), 44, who is proclaimed Genghis Khan (Cheng Ji Si Han in Chinese)—"emperor of all emperors"—at Karakorum.
The Beguine movement that begins to develop in Switzerland, the Rhineland, northern France, and the Low Countries brings together lay-women—all pledged to chastity, poverty, manual labor, and communal worship—into all-female, self-governing communities (year approximate). A surplus of females in this century and the next will make it impossible for many young women to marry unless they have dowries, and while one must have a dowry to join a convent, a beguinage has no such requirement.
Uigurs on the Chinese border employ block printing to print Buddhist works in the Turkish language, using alphabet script derived from the Phoenician through Aramaic and other languages, with Sanskrit notes and Chinese page numbers. Genghis Khan will employ the Uigur scholar Tatatonga, who will use his script to record documents in the Mongol language (see Korea, 1234).
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Ibn Ismail Ibn al Razzaz al-Jazari publishes his Al-jami bain al-lim wal-amal al-nafi fi sinat'at al-hiyal ("treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical arts"), which gives descriptions of automatons and clepsydras, as well as a piston suction pump and a crank connecting-rod system that turns rotary motion into up-and-down motion. See also 1180 Tools; 1296 Materials. (See essay.)
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This article is about the year 1206.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1203 1204 1205 – 1206 – 1207 1208 1209 |
| 1206 by topic | |
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| 1206 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1206 MCCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1959 |
| Armenian calendar | 655 ԹՎ ՈԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5956 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -638–-637 |
| Bengali calendar | 613 |
| Berber calendar | 2156 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Joh. 1 – 8 Joh. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1750 |
| Burmese calendar | 568 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6714–6715 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年十一月廿一日 (3842/3902-11-21) — to —
丙寅年十二月初一日(3843/3903-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | 922–923 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1198–1199 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4966–4967 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1262–1263 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1128–1129 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4307–4308 |
| Holocene calendar | 11206 |
| Iranian calendar | 584–585 |
| Islamic calendar | 602–603 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1206 MCCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3539 |
| Minguo calendar | 706 before ROC 民前706年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1749 |
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Year 1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
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Asia
- Temüjin is proclaimed Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, founding the Mongol Empire.
- Mukhali is appointed myriarch of the left wing of the newly reorganized Mongol army, and granted immunity for up to 9 breaches of the law.
- Qutb-ud-din Aybak, a Turkish mameluke from Central Asia proclaims the Mameluk dynasty in India, the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Europe
- Theodore Lascaris is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Nicaea.
- The Livonian Brothers of the Sword, in alliance with the Semigallians, conquer Livs.
- King Valdemar II and Archbishop Andreas Sunonis raid Saaremaa Island, Estonia, forcing the islanders to submit. The Danes build a fortress, but finding no volunteers to man it, they burn it down themselves and leave the island.
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Arts and culture
- Sugar, an import from the Muslim world, is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account. Almonds, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg are also imported for royal banquets.[1]
Education
- Colchester Royal Grammar School founded.
Religion
- Foundation of the Order of the Friars Minor by Francis of Assisi.[2]
- A peasant named Thurkhill in England claims that Saint Julian took him on a tour of Purgatory. Thurkhill includes realistic touches including descriptions of Purgatory’s torture chambers, and is believed by Roger of Wendover, one of his society’s leading historians.[3]
- This year, Dominic de Guzmán claims to have received the Holy Rosary from the Virgin Mary.
Technics
- The Arab engineer al-Jazari describes many mechanical inventions in his book (title translated to English) The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.
Births
- Béla IV of Hungary (d. 1270)
- Güyük Khan, the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
Deaths
- April 7 – Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
- April – John X, Patriarch of Constantinople (alternative date is May)
- June 4 – Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France and regent of France
- Ikhtiyar al-Din Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, founder of Muslim rule in Bengal
- Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (b. 1162)
- Jamuqa, Mongol military and political leader
- Yang Wanli, Chinese poet (b. 1127)
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