WHAT HAPPENED IN 1216

Events: By area

Europe

• January – First Barons' War: The English army sacks Berwick-on-Tweed and raids southern Scotland.[1]
• April 10 – Upon the death of Erik Knutsson, he is succeeded by his rival Johan Sverkersson as king of Sweden.
• April 22 – Battle of Lipitsa: Mstislav the Daring and Konstantin of Rostov defeat their rivals for the rule of the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal.
• May 21 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France, the future King Louis VIII, invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet. Entering London without opposition, he is proclaimed, but not crowned, King of England at Old St Paul's Cathedral.[1]
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• July 24 – The French Albigensian Crusaders of the castle of Beaucaire surrender to Raymond, future count of Toulouse.[2]
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• October 18 or 19 – John, King of England, dies at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire; he is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry, with William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as regent. The young Henry III of England is crowned at Gloucester on October 28.[3]
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• November 12 – William Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on the Magna Carta, in the new King of England's name.[3][4]
• Dresden receives city rights.
• In England, Roger of Wendover begins to cover contemporary events in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum.

By topic

Religion

• July 24 – Pope Honorius III succeeds Pope Innocent III as the 177th pope.
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• Pope Honorius III officially approves the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order).
• Ballintubber Abbey is founded by King Cathal Crovdearg O'Connor of Connaught in Ireland.
  
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Births

• Henry V of Luxembourg
• Robert I of Artois, Count of Artois
• Eric IV of Denmark (d. 1250)
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• Zahed Gilani, Grand master of the Zahediyeh Sufi Order (d. 1301)
  
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Deaths

• January 31 – Theodore II Eirenikos, Patriarch of Constantinople
• April 10 – Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)
• June 11 – Henry of Flanders, emperor of the Latin Empire (poisoned) (b. c. 1174)
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• July 16 – Pope Innocent III
• October 18 – John of England (b. 1166)
• Ida, Countess of Boulogne
• Kamo no Chōmei, Japanese author (b. 1155)
  
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