1206

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 12th century13th century14th century
Decades: 1170s  1180s  1190s  – 1200s –  1210s  1220s  1230s
Years: 1203 1204 120512061207 1208 1209
1206 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1206
MCCVI
Ab urbe condita1959
Armenian calendar655
ԹՎ ՈԾԵ
Assyrian calendar5956
Balinese saka calendar1127–1128
Bengali calendar613
Berber calendar2156
English Regnal yearJoh. 1 – 8 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar1750
Burmese calendar568
Byzantine calendar6714–6715
Chinese calendar乙丑(Wood Ox)
3902 or 3842
    — to —
丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3903 or 3843
Coptic calendar922–923
Discordian calendar2372
Ethiopian calendar1198–1199
Hebrew calendar4966–4967
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1262–1263
 - Shaka Samvat1127–1128
 - Kali Yuga4306–4307
Holocene calendar11206
Igbo calendar206–207
Iranian calendar584–585
Islamic calendar602–603
Japanese calendarGenkyū 3 / Ken'ei 1
(建永元年)
Javanese calendar1114–1115
Julian calendar1206
MCCVI
Korean calendar3539
Minguo calendar706 before ROC
民前706年
Nanakshahi calendar−262
Thai solar calendar1748–1749
Tibetan calendar阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
1332 or 951 or 179
    — to —
阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
1333 or 952 or 180

1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1206th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 206th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 13th century, and the 7th year of the 1200s decade.

Events

  • Temujin becomes Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, he started the Mongol Empire
  • Qutb ud-Din starts the Mameluk dynasty in India, the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
  • Livonian Brothers of the Sword in alliance with Semigallians beats Livs
  • King Valdemar II and archbishop Andreas Sunonis made a raid to Saaremaa island, Estonia. The islanders were forced to give up and the Danes built a fortress there, but they found no volunteers to stay there. They burned it down themselves and left the island.

Births

  • Béla IV of Hungary (died 1270)
  • Güyük Khan

Deaths