1198

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1195
  • 1196
  • 1197
  • 1198
  • 1199
  • 1200
  • 1201
1198 in various
AG
Thai solar calendar1740–1741
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1324 or 943 or 171
    — to —
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1325 or 944 or 172
Pope Innocent III (r. 1198–1216)

Year 1198 (MCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

England

  • John of England captures a party of 18 French knights and many men-at-arms, in the ongoing conflict against France.[1] His brother, King Richard I (the Lionheart) introduces a new Great Seal – in an attempt to keep the war against France funded. The government proclaims that charters previously struck with the old seal are no longer valid and must be renewed with a fresh payment.[2] The office of Lord Warden of the Stannaries is also introduced, to tax the produce of tin mines in Cornwall and Devon.[3]
  • September 27Battle of Gisors: Richard I defeats the French forces led by Philip II (Augustus) at Courcelles-lès-Gisors, in Picardy. Richard captures three castles on the border of the Vexin. The French troops, many of them mounted, crowd the bridge leading into Gisors Castle but it collapses beneath them. The French king is among those who plunge into the water in his armor. Many French knights drown, but Philip is pulled to safety.

Levant

  • Spring –
    Amalric I. A few days later they are crowned as King and Queen of Jerusalem at Acre. On July 1, Amalric signs a truce with Al-Adil I, sultan of Egypt and Syria, securing the Crusader possessions from Acre to as far as Antioch.[4]

Japan

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Literature

  • December 11Averroes (or Ibn Rushd), Arab polymath and physician, dies. He is the author of more than 100 books, for which he is known in the western world as The Commentator and Father of Rationalism.[5]

Religion

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References

  1. ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 47
  2. ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 62
  3. ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 124
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