1200
Year 1200 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.Events
Births
- January 19 - Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen
- exact date unknown
- *Al-Abhari, Persian philosopher and mathematician
- *John Fitzalan, Lord of Oswestry
- *Ingerd Jakobsdatter, Danish countess
- probable
- * Ulrich von Liechtenstein, German nobleman and poet
- * Adam Marsh, English Franciscan scholar and theologian
- * Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler
- * Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna
- * Mindaugas, Great King of Lithuania
- * William of Sherwood, English logician
Deaths
- April 8 - Adalbert III of Bohemia, archbishop
- April 23 - Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian philosopher
- September 17? - Emperor Guangzong of Song
- December - Gilbert Horal, 12th Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- date unknown - Odo of Canterbury, theologian and abbot of Battle