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| 1197 |
| | | The three-year old Frederick II has a claim to the thrones of both Sicily and Germany on the death of his father, the emperor Henry VI | |
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| 1199 |
| | | On the death of his brother, Richard I, John becomes king of England | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The longbow, a weapon of great use to English armies, is probably first developed in Wales | |
|  | Sketch of a Welsh archer still shown with a short bow, 13th century
National Archives, Kew
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| c. 1200 |
| | | Terracotta heads and figures are buried in graves in the region of Djenné in modern Mali | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The samurai provide military support for the shogun, in a system similar to feudalism at this same period in Europe | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | In the cathedral on Torcello, and in St Mark's, Venetian mosaics are a culmination in the west of the Byzantine tradition | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | Flemish towns begin to acquire municipal independence, as communes, following the earlier Italian trend | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | Bushido, the code of the samurai, emphasizes the necessary qualities of respect, decorum, courage and martial skill | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | German pressure eastwards (the Drang nach Osten) steadily brings colonists into regions previously occupied by Slavs | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The Chinese develop a feature of great significance in the history of seafaring - a sternpost rudder which is an integral part of the ship | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The heresy of the Cathars (meaning 'pure' ones) is now so well established in southern France that they have bishops of their own | |
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| 1202 |
| | | The fleet of the fourth crusade departs from Venice - only to be diverted from its purposes by Venetian guile | |
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| 1202 |
| | | A German order, the Knights of the Sword, begins the forcible conversion of Latvia and Estonia to Christianity | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The French king, Philip II, takes Normandy from the English, and follows this success by taking Anjou a year later | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The crusaders of the fourth crusade besiege, take and destroy the Christian city of Constantinople | |
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| 1204 |
| | | The Byzantine empire continues, in much reduced form, with a new capital at Nicaea | |
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| 1204 |
| | | Venice takes the useful islands of Corfu and Crete as part of the spoils of the fourth crusade | |
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| 1204 |
| | | A Latin empire is set up in Constantinople on the same basis as the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| c. 1205 |
| | | The story of Parsifal and the Holy Grail becomes the subject of a courtly epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach | |
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| c. 1205 |
| | | Many of the treasures adorning the church of San Marco in Venice are loot taken from Constantinople during the fourth crusade | |
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| 1206 |
| | | Temujin, elected chief of all the Mongol tribes, takes the name Genghis Khan | |
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| 1208 |
| | | The murder of the pope's legate to Toulouse provokes the Albigensian crusade, which aims to wipe out the Catharist heresy | |
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| 1210 |
| | | St Francis and eleven companions tell Innocent III of their wish for a life of holy poverty in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1211 |
| | | The leader of a Turkish army establishes an independent sultanate in Delhi, beginning many centuries of Muslim rule in north India | |
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| 1212 |
| | | Participants in the Children's Crusade suffer disaster after the waters of the Mediterranean fail to part for them | |
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| 1215 |
| | | St Dominic and his companions tell Innocent III of their wish to teach and preach in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1215 |
| | | John, the king of England, fixes his seal to Magna Carta, which the barons place before him in a meadow called Runnymede | |
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| 1215 |
| | | In Magna Carta's lesser clauses (39 and 40) there are enshrined certain basic guarantees concerning the rule of law | |
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| 1216 |
| | | The Dominicans are formally established by Pope Honorius III as Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum, the Order of the Friars Preachers | |
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