1207

This article is about the year 1207.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years:	1204 1205 1206 – 1207 – 1208 1209 1210

1207 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1207 in poetry

1207 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1207 MCCVII
Ab urbe condita	1960
Armenian calendar	656 ԹՎ ՈԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	5957
Bengali calendar	614
Berber calendar	2157
English Regnal year	8 Joh. 1 – 9 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1751
Burmese calendar	569
Byzantine calendar	6715–6716
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3903 or 3843     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3904 or 3844
Coptic calendar	923–924
Discordian calendar	2373
Ethiopian calendar	1199–1200
Hebrew calendar	4967–4968
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1263–1264
- Shaka Samvat	1129–1130
- Kali Yuga	4308–4309
Holocene calendar	11207
Igbo calendar	207–208
Iranian calendar	585–586
Islamic calendar	603–604
Japanese calendar	Ken'ei 2 / Jōgen (Kamakura period) 1 (承元元年)
Julian calendar	1207 MCCVII
Korean calendar	3540
Minguo calendar	705 before ROC 民前705年
Thai solar calendar	1749–1750

Year 1207 (MCCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Before 1207 – Kosho makes Kuya Preaching. Kamakura period. It is now kept at Rokuhara Mitsu-ji, Kyoto.
• Hōnen and his followers are exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings.

Europe

• February 2 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
• November – Leeds, a market town in England, receives its first charter.
• Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.
• King John issues letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool.

By topic

Markets

• First evidence of forced loans in Venice. This technique becomes the staple of public finance in Europe until the 16th century.

Religion

• June 17 – Stephen Langton is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Innocent III.

Births

• July 7 – Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (d. 1231)
• September 30 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (d. 1273)
• October 1 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
• Henry II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1248)
• Philip I of Savoy (d. 1285)

Deaths

• January 4 – Simon II, Duke of Lorraine
• June 17 – Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130)
• Amaury of Bene, French theologian and 'heretic'
• Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria
• David Soslan, King Consort of Georgia
• Xin Qiji, Chinese general and poet (b. 1140)
• Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (b. 1152)