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Events

* June 15 - Battle of Lyndanisse: Danish crusaders led by King Waldemar II conquer Tallinn. The Flag of Denmark allegedly falls from the sky during that battle.
* November 5 - Damietta, Egypt falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
* Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade.
* The Egyptian city of Al Mansurah is founded.
* Twenty-one Lithuanian dukes sign a peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia.
* The windmill is first introduced to China with the travels of Yelü Chucai to Turkestan.
* The Hojo family, vassals of the Shogun, reduce him to a figurehead.

Births

* Christopher I of Denmark (d. 1259)
* Guillaume de Gisors, Grand Master of the fictional Priory of Sion (d. 1307)

Deaths

* February 13 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
* May 5 – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
* May 14 – William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1146)
* June 17 – David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon
* November 3 – Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel
* Raymond-Roupen of Antioch
* John de Courcy, knight and Earl of Ulster (b. 1160)
* Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople
* Yolanda of Flanders, wife and regent of Peter of Courtenay
* Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire (b. 1181)

Ongoing Events

* Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)