1235

Year 1235 (MCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

1235 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1235 MCCXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1988
Armenian calendar	684 ԹՎ ՈՁԴ
Assyrian calendar	5985
Balinese saka calendar	1156–1157
Bengali calendar	641–642
Berber calendar	2185
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 3 – 20 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1779
Burmese calendar	597
Byzantine calendar	6743–6744
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3932 or 3725     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3933 or 3726
Coptic calendar	951–952
Discordian calendar	2401
Ethiopian calendar	1227–1228
Hebrew calendar	4995–4996
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1291–1292
- Shaka Samvat	1156–1157
- Kali Yuga	4335–4336
Holocene calendar	11235
Igbo calendar	235–236
Iranian calendar	613–614
Islamic calendar	632–633
Japanese calendar	Bunryaku 2 / Katei 1 (嘉禎元年)
Javanese calendar	1144–1145
Julian calendar	1235 MCCXXXV
Korean calendar	3568
Minguo calendar	677 before ROC 民前677年
Nanakshahi calendar	−233
Thai solar calendar	1777–1778
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1361 or 980 or 208     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1362 or 981 or 209

Events

• Connacht in Ireland is finally conquered by the Hiberno-Norman Richard Mór de Burgh; Felim Ua Conchobair is expelled.^[1][2]
• A general inquisition begins in France.^[3][4]
• Siege of Constantinople: The Byzantine emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II besiege Constantinople in an attempt to take it from its Latin rulers, John of Brienne and Baldwin II. Angelo Sanudo successfully negotiates a two-year truce.^[5][6]
• Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231) is canonized by Pope Gregory IX.^[7][8]
• A Chinese text of this year records that Hangzhou City, the capital of the Song dynasty, has various social clubs that include a West Lake Poetry Club, the Buddhist Tea Society, the Physical Fitness Club, the Anglers' Club, the Occult Club, the Young Girls' Chorus, the Exotic Foods Club, the Plants and Fruits Club, the Antique Collectors' Club, the Horse-Lovers' Club, and the Refined Music Society.^[9][10]
• Probable date – Lancaster Royal Grammar School is founded in the north of England.^[11][12]
• Approximate date – Battle of Kirina: Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeats Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté, beginning the Mali Empire. By tradition, the Manden Charter, a constitution, is proclaimed in Kouroukan Fouga.^[13]

Births

• November 2 – Henry of Almain, King of the Romans (d. 1271)^[14][15]
• probable
  • Pope Boniface VIII (approximate date; d. 1303)^[16]
  • Ramon Llull, Catalan writer and philosopher (d. 1315)^[17][18]
  • Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (d. 1311)^[19][20]
  • Qian Xuan, Chinese painter (d. 1305)^[21]

Deaths

Henry I, Duke of Brabant

King Andrew II of Hungary

• September 5 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)^[22][23]
• September 21 – King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)^[24][25]
• November 5 – Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1205)^[26][27]
• date unknown
  • Andronikos I Gidos, Emperor of Trebizond^[28]
  • Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi linguist (b. 1163)^[29]
  • Rabbi David Kimhi, French Biblical commentator (b. 1160)^[30][31]