1236

Year 1236 (MCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s
Years:	1233 1234 1235 1236 1237 1238 1239

1236 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1236 MCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1989
Armenian calendar	685 ԹՎ ՈՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5986
Balinese saka calendar	1157–1158
Bengali calendar	643
Berber calendar	2186
English Regnal year	20 Hen. 3 – 21 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1780
Burmese calendar	598
Byzantine calendar	6744–6745
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3932 or 3872     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3933 or 3873
Coptic calendar	952–953
Discordian calendar	2402
Ethiopian calendar	1228–1229
Hebrew calendar	4996–4997
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1292–1293
- Shaka Samvat	1157–1158
- Kali Yuga	4336–4337
Holocene calendar	11236
Igbo calendar	236–237
Iranian calendar	614–615
Islamic calendar	633–634
Japanese calendar	Katei 2 (嘉禎２年)
Javanese calendar	1145–1146
Julian calendar	1236 MCCXXXVI
Korean calendar	3569
Minguo calendar	676 before ROC 民前676年
Nanakshahi calendar	−232
Thai solar calendar	1778–1779
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1362 or 981 or 209     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1363 or 982 or 210

Events

Africa

• Kouroukan Fouga, the constitution of the Mali Empire, is created.

Asia

• May 1 – Razia Sultana is the designated successor of her father, to the Delhi Sultanate.
• 10 October – Razia Sultana becomes the first Muslim female ruler of the Indian Sub-Continent, deposing her half brother as Sultana of Delhi
• Only four of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols, under Ögedei Khan.
• Kalinga Magha, founder of the Aryacakravarti Dynasty, is expelled from Polonnaruwa to Jaffna, the capital of the Jaffna Kingdom.

Europe

• January 14 – Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
• June 29 – Córdoba, Andalusia, is taken by Castilian troops from the emir Ibn Hud, as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.[1] The Great Mosque here becomes wholly a Roman Catholic cathedral.
• September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
• Volga Bulgaria is conquered by the Mongol Batu Khan.
• A tournament at Tickhill in England turns into a battle between northerners and southerners, but peace is restored by the papal legate.[2]

Arts

• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St. Albans Abbey dies. His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.

Markets

• A drought causes the harvest to fail, and leads to one of the great famines of the century in Europe.

Religion

• Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan Order.

Births

• June 6 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
• June 8 – Violant of Aragon, queen consort of Castile and León (d. 1301)
• October – Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Iranian polymath and poet (d. 1311)

Deaths

• January 14 – Saint Sava of Serbia (b. 1175)
• July 29 – Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (b. 1175)
• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, English Benedictine monk and chronicler
• November 26 – Al-Aziz Muhammad ibn Ghazi, Ayyubid emir of Aleppo (b. 1216)
• John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (b. c. 1179)
• Gilbert of Dunkeld, Bishop of Dunkeld

References

1. Peter Linehan (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In David Abulafia (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–673. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
2. Hey, David. Medieval South Yorkshire.