1201

1201 (MCCI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1198 1199 1200 – 1201 – 1202 1203 1204

1201 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1201 MCCI
Ab urbe condita	1954
Armenian calendar	650 ԹՎ ՈԾ
Assyrian calendar	5951
Balinese saka calendar	1122–1123
Bengali calendar	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) 3897 or 3837     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3898 or 3838
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

• The town of Riga was chartered as a city.
• Boniface of Montferrat is elected leader of the Fourth Crusade, after the death of Theobald III of Champagne.
• Innocent III supports Otto IV as Holy Roman Emperor, against Philip of Swabia.
• The Fourth Crusade besieges Zara.

Births

• August 9 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
• October 9 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (died 1274)
• Theobald IV of Champagne (died 1252)
• Ladislaus III of Hungary (died 1205)
• Danylo King of Rus (died 1264)
• Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (died 1221)

Deaths

• March 21 – Absalon, Danish archbishop
• May 24 – Theobald III of Champagne
• July 29 – Agnes of Merania, queen of Philip II of France
• September 5 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (born 1161)
• Bohemund III of Antioch (born 1144)
• Joachim of Fiore, founder of monastic order of San Giovanni (born 1135)

Heads of states

• England – John I, King of England (reigned 1199 – 1216).
• France – Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223).
• Pope – Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)