History
1212
General
Population: 404 Million*
- Religion: Children's Crusade begins, sea fails to part, fails and 50,000+ sold into Turkish slavery - possible "Pied Piper" origin
- Deaths: Tamara Queen of Georgea, Emperor Otto IV
Europe
- General: Independence of Trubczwsk in the Volga to 1240
- England: Innocent III says John no longer king
End of Henry Fitzailwin as first Mayor of London
Fire in London kills 3000
Tiles replace thatched and wooden roofs in England
- France: Rheims Cathedral built
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Otto IV, Frederick II elected German king HRE and makes Bohemia a hereditary kingdom
- Italian States: Venice conquers Crete
- Netherlands: North Sea flood and storm surge in Netherlands kills 60,000
- Spanish States: Almohads defeated by Christians at battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - end of Islamic rule of Spain