History
1215
General
Population: 405 Million*
- Religion: Fourth Lateran Council prohibits trial by ordeal and promotes reforms
Pope nullifies Magna Carta
Dominican Friars founded by the future St. Dominic the Spanish priest at Toulouse
Franciscan monks of Friars Minor recognized
- Deaths: English trubadour Bertrand de Born, German poet Hartmann von der Aue, Genghis Khan, Zen Buddhism founder Elsa
Asia
- China: Death of Genghis Khan
Mongols capture Dadu (Beijing)
- Japan: Elsa - founder of Zen Buddhism - dies
Europe
- England: Magna Carta - King John seals Magna Carta at Runnymede giving more power to barons - nullified by Pope
Magna Carta does away with death taxes and establishes freedom of Church and State - enforced by sword
Start of Barons’ War of England (first) to 1217
- France: Frederick II crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle
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