1211

This article is about the year 1211.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1180s  1190s  1200s  – 1210s –  1220s  1230s  1240s
Years:	1208 1209 1210 – 1211 – 1212 1213 1214

1211 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1211 in poetry

1211 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1211 MCCXI
Ab urbe condita	1964
Armenian calendar	660 ԹՎ ՈԿ
Assyrian calendar	5961
Bengali calendar	618
Berber calendar	2161
English Regnal year	12 Joh. 1 – 13 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1755
Burmese calendar	573
Byzantine calendar	6719–6720
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3907 or 3847     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3908 or 3848
Coptic calendar	927–928
Discordian calendar	2377
Ethiopian calendar	1203–1204
Hebrew calendar	4971–4972
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1267–1268
- Shaka Samvat	1133–1134
- Kali Yuga	4312–4313
Holocene calendar	11211
Igbo calendar	211–212
Iranian calendar	589–590
Islamic calendar	607–608
Japanese calendar	Jōgen (Kamakura period) 5 / Kenryaku 1 (建暦元年)
Julian calendar	1211 MCCXI
Korean calendar	3544
Minguo calendar	701 before ROC 民前701年
Thai solar calendar	1753–1754

Year 1211 (MCCXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Cavalier Windmill at Langlade, Gard, first recorded in 1211

Events

• September 14 – Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross are founded in Liège.
• October 15 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: the Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
• Livonian Crusade: The crusaders fail to conquer Viljandi stronghold, but achieve to baptize Sakala and Ugandi counties in Southern Estonia.
• Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invade Jin dynasty China, aiming at this stage simply to loot the countryside. A Chinese army is defeated and slaughtered at the Battle of the Badger Mouth near Zhangjiakou and another is beaten at Mukden, where the city is taken. Beijing is also besieged by the Mongol hordes.
• The church in the French city of Reims burns down; soon after, construction begins on Reims Cathedral.
• King John of England sends a gift of herrings to nunneries in almost every shire despite his status as an excommunicant.
• The oldest extant double-entry bookkeeping system record dates from this year.

Births

• September 22 – Ibn Khallikan, Kurdish Muslim scholar (d. 1282)
• William of Villehardouin, prince of Achaea (d. 1278)

Deaths

• August 9 – William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, exiled Anglo-Norman baron (b. 1144/53)
• Kaykhusraw I, Seljuk Sultan of Rûm (killed in battle)