1201

1201 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1201 MCCI
Ab urbe condita	1954
Armenian calendar	650 ԹՎ ՈԾ
Assyrian calendar	5951
Balinese saka calendar	1122–1123
Bengali calendar	607–608
Berber calendar	2151
English Regnal year	2 Joh. 1 – 3 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1745
Burmese calendar	563
Byzantine calendar	6709–6710
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3898 or 3691 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3899 or 3692
Coptic calendar	917–918
Discordian calendar	2367
Ethiopian calendar	1193–1194
Hebrew calendar	4961–4962
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1257–1258
- Shaka Samvat	1122–1123
- Kali Yuga	4301–4302
Holocene calendar	11201
Igbo calendar	201–202
Iranian calendar	579–580
Islamic calendar	597–598
Japanese calendar	Shōji 3 / Kennin 1 (建仁元年)
Javanese calendar	1109–1110
Julian calendar	1201 MCCI
Korean calendar	3534
Minguo calendar	711 before ROC 民前711年
Nanakshahi calendar	−267
Thai solar calendar	1743–1744
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1327 or 946 or 174 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1328 or 947 or 175

Events

July 31 – John Komnenos the Fat, a Byzantine aristocrat, attempts to usurp the imperial throne; he is proclaimed emperor and crowned by Patriarch John X Kamateros, at Constantinople. Meanwhile, Emperor Alexios III Angelos, who resides in the Palace of Blachernae, dispatches a small force under Alexios Palaiologos, Alexios' son-in-law, who is regarded as his heir-apparent. With support of the Varangian Guard, John is overthrown and decapitated by the end of the day. His head is displayed at the Forum of Constantine, while John's supporters are captured and tortured to extract the names of all the conspirators.^[1]^[2]
Autumn – Prince Alexios Angelos, son of the deposed, blinded and imprisoned late Emperor Isaac II Angelos, escapes from Constantinople. He makes his way to Sicily and then Rome where he is turned away by Pope Innocent III. Next, Alexios travels to the court of his brother-in-law, Philip of Swabia, the King of Germany, who receives him well.^[3]

Spring – A treaty is signed between the Crusade leaders and Venice. Doge Enrico Dandolo agrees to manufacture a fleet capable of transporting the Crusader army to the Levant, and to provide provisions for 33,500 men and 4,500 horses, for the price of 85,000 silver marks while Venice will also take half of whatever the expedition conquers. As part of this deal the Venetians will provide – at their own expense – sufficient ships to carry the Crusader forces, plus 50 galleys to defend it.^[4]
May 24 – Count Theobald III of Champagne suddenly dies and is replaced by Boniface I, marquis of Montferrat, as leader of the Fourth Crusade. He travels to France, where he meets his chief colleagues at Soissons.^[5]
Battle of Stellau: Count Adolf III of Holstein is defeated by the Danish army under King Canute VI. Adolf retreats with his forces to Hamburg, where he is besieged and later captured by Duke Valdemar of Schleswig.
Northern Crusades: The town of Riga is chartered as a city by Albert of Buxhoeveden, bishop of Livonia, who has landed on the site with some 1,500 Crusaders earlier in the year.

July 11 – Llywelyn the Great pays homage to John, King of England after Llywelyn has added Eifionydd and Llŷn to his kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales.^[6]
King John puts an embargo on wheat exported to Flanders, in an attempt to force an allegiance between the states. He also puts a levy of a fifteenth on the value of cargo exported to France and disallows the export of wool to France without a special license. The levies are enforced in each port by at least six men – including one churchman and one knight. John affirms that judgments made by the court of Westminster are as valid as those made "before the king himself or his chief justice".^[7]

March 25 – Constance, duchess of Brittany, founds Villeneuve Abbey and gives it a charter.
April 10 – John, King of England, permits Jews to live freely in England and Normandy.^[8]
Pope Innocent III recognizes Otto IV as the only legitimate ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, against his rival King, Philip of Swabia. In return, Otto promises to support the pope's interests in Italy.

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