1212 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The first Great Fire of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• Battle of Navas de Tolosa.
• Children's crusade
• Crusaders push the Moslems out of northern Spain

Births

• Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan

Deaths

• Honen Shonin, who established Pure Land Buddhism as an independent sect in Japan
• March 26 - king Sancho I of Portugal

Monarchs/Presidents

• France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)
• Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan, Mongol Khan (from 1206 to 1227)
• Venice - Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (ruled from 1205 to 1229)