1227

Year 1227 (MCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Pope Honorius III

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s
Years:	1224 1225 1226 1227 1228 1229 1230

1227 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1227 MCCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1980
Armenian calendar	676 ԹՎ ՈՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	5977
Balinese saka calendar	1148–1149
Bengali calendar	634
Berber calendar	2177
English Regnal year	11 Hen. 3 – 12 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1771
Burmese calendar	589
Byzantine calendar	6735–6736
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3923 or 3863     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3924 or 3864
Coptic calendar	943–944
Discordian calendar	2393
Ethiopian calendar	1219–1220
Hebrew calendar	4987–4988
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1283–1284
- Shaka Samvat	1148–1149
- Kali Yuga	4327–4328
Holocene calendar	11227
Igbo calendar	227–228
Iranian calendar	605–606
Islamic calendar	624–625
Japanese calendar	Karoku 3 / Antei 1 (安貞元年)
Javanese calendar	1135–1136
Julian calendar	1227 MCCXXVII
Korean calendar	3560
Minguo calendar	685 before ROC 民前685年
Nanakshahi calendar	−241
Thai solar calendar	1769–1770
Tibetan calendar	阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1353 or 972 or 200     — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1354 or 973 or 201

Events

• January
  • Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword and their crusader allies cross the sea ice from mainland Estonia, and defeat the last Estonian strongholds in the Battle of Muhu and the siege of the Valjala Stronghold in the Saaremaa islands. This marks the end of the Estonian campaign in the Livonian Crusade. The Sword Brothers conquer Danish Estonia, and Tallinn (Reval) is given town rights under Riga law.
  • Henry III of England declares himself of age, and assumes power.[1]
  • (approximate date) Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: Grand Prince Yaroslav II of Vladimir leads an attack from the Novgorod Republic on Balto-Finnic peoples in eastern Fennoscandia, called "Yem", whom he devastates.[2]
• January 11 – The city of Požega is first mentioned, in a charter of Andrew II of Hungary.
• March – England makes a truce with France.[1]
• March 19 – Pope Gregory IX succeeds Pope Honorius III, as the 178th pope.
• July 22 – Battle of Bornhöved, Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein defeated King Valdemar II of Denmark
• November 24 – Prince Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland, is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
• Dōgen receives Dharma transmission and inka from his master Rujing in China, settling his "life's quest of the great matter",[3][4] going on to introduce Sōtō Zen Buddhism into his native Japan.

Births

• February – William II, Count of Holland
• September 30 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
• approximate date – Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (d. 1273)

Deaths

Genghis Khan

• March 18 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
• July 23 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
• August 1 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
• August 18 – Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (b. c. 1162)
• November 24 – Prince Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland (b. c. 1186)
• probable date
  • Jochi, son of Genghis Khan (b. 1182)
  • Marco Sanudo, Venetian crusader

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 79–81. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. "Attack to Finland in 1226". Laurentian Codex (in Swedish). Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
3. Tanahashi, Kazuaki, ed. (1997). Moon In a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. New York: North Point Press. ISBN 0-86547-186-X.
4. Tanahashi, Kazuaki; Loori, Daido (eds.). The True Dharma Eye. Boston: Shambhala.