1208

1208 (MCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1208th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 208th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 13th century, and the 9th year of the 1200s decade. As of the start of 1208, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1208 MCCVIII
Ab urbe condita	1961
Armenian calendar	657 ԹՎ ՈԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	5958
Balinese saka calendar	1129–1130
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	1129–1130
- Kali Yuga	4308–4309
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)
Javanese calendar	1116–1117
Julian calendar	1208 MCCVIII
Korean calendar	3541
Minguo calendar	704 before ROC 民前704年
Nanakshahi calendar	−260
Thai solar calendar	1750–1751
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 1334 or 953 or 181     — to — ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1335 or 954 or 182

Events

• January 31 – Inferior Swedish forces defeats the invading danes in Battle of Lena.
• June 21 – Philip of Swabia King of Germany and rival Holy Roman Emperor to Otto IV, assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.
• With the help of the newly converted local tribes of Livs and Letts, the crusaders initiated raids into part of what is present-day Estonia and Estonian ancient fight for independence began (lasted until 1227).

Births

• February 2 – King James I of Aragon (died 1276)
• Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (died 1275)
• Möngke Khan of the Mongol Empire
• Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (died 1265)
• Akerian Redfern of the Redfern clan

Deaths

• April 22 – Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
• June 21 – Philip of Swabia, king of Germany
• November 9 – Sancha of Castile, queen of Alfonso II of Aragon (born 1155)
• Amhaoibh O'Rothlain, Chief of Calruidhe Cuile Cearnadha