1214

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century · 13th century · 14th century
Decades:	1180s · 1190s · 1200s · 1210s · 1220s · 1230s · 1240s
Years:	1211 · 1212 · 1213 · 1214 · 1215 · 1216 · 1217

1214 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1214 in poetry

1214 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1214 MCCXIV
Ab urbe condita	1967
Armenian calendar	663 ԹՎ ՈԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5964
Bengali calendar	621
Berber calendar	2164
English Regnal year	15 Joh. 1 – 16 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1758
Burmese calendar	576
Byzantine calendar	6722–6723
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3910 or 3850 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3911 or 3851
Coptic calendar	930–931
Discordian calendar	2380
Ethiopian calendar	1206–1207
Hebrew calendar	4974–4975
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1270–1271
- Shaka Samvat	1135–1136
- Kali Yuga	4314–4315
Holocene calendar	11214
Igbo calendar	214–215
Iranian calendar	592–593
Islamic calendar	610–611
Japanese calendar	Kenpō 2 (建保２年)
Javanese calendar	1122–1123
Julian calendar	1214 MCCXIV
Korean calendar	3547
Minguo calendar	698 before ROC 民前698年
Nanakshahi calendar	−254
Thai solar calendar	1756–1757

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Year 1214 (MCCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

November 1 – Siege of Sinope: The Black Sea port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
The Emperor Xuanzong of Jin China surrenders to the Mongols under Genghis Khan, who have besieged Beijing for a year. He pays a huge ransom and then abandons northern China, heading for Kaifeng.
In his campaigns in Liaodong, the Mongol general Mukhali commands a newly formed Khitan–Chinese army and a special corps of 12,000 Chinese auxiliary troops.

February 15 – John, King of England, lands an invasion force at La Rochelle in France.^[1]
July 27 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France defeats an army of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers led by Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in the Kingdom of France, ending the Anglo-French War (1202–14).^[1]
Summer – King Alfonso VIII of Castile besieges Almohad troops in Baeza. The famine experienced in the peninsula is such that neither army is able to fight.
September 18 – Treaty of Chinon signed by John, King of England, and Philip II of France recognising the Capetian gains from the Angevin Empire.^[1]
October 5 – Upon the death of their father, King Alfonso VIII of Castile, and of their mother, Eleanor (October 31), Bernguela becomes the regent of her young brother, King Henry I.^[2]
December 4 – Death of William the Lion, King of the Scots, having reigned since 1165; he is succeeded by his son, Alexander II (crowned at Scone on December 6) who will reign until his death in 1249.
The German city of Bielefeld is founded.

June 20 – Papal ordinance defines the rights of the scholars at the University of Oxford.^[1]

September 14 – Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
October 5 – King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
October 31 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
December 4 – William the Lion, King of the Scots (b. c. 1143)
October 18 – John de Gray, bishop of Norwich
date unknown
- Rurik Rostislavich, Prince of Novgorod
- Steksys, Grand Prince of Lithuania

1 2 3 4 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia. The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–671. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.

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