1196

1196 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1196
MCXCVI
Ab urbe condita1949
Armenian calendar645
ԹՎ ՈԽԵ
Assyrian calendar5946
Balinese saka calendar1117–1118
Bengali calendar603
Berber calendar2146
English Regnal yearRic. 1 – 8 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar1740
Burmese calendar558
Byzantine calendar6704–6705
Chinese calendar乙卯(Wood Rabbit)
3892 or 3832
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3893 or 3833
Coptic calendar912–913
Discordian calendar2362
Ethiopian calendar1188–1189
Hebrew calendar4956–4957
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1252–1253
 - Shaka Samvat1117–1118
 - Kali Yuga4296–4297
Holocene calendar11196
Igbo calendar196–197
Iranian calendar574–575
Islamic calendar592–593
Japanese calendarKenkyū 7
(建久7年)
Javanese calendar1103–1104
Julian calendar1196
MCXCVI
Korean calendar3529
Minguo calendar716 before ROC
民前716年
Nanakshahi calendar−272
Seleucid era1507/1508 AG
Thai solar calendar1738–1739
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Wood-Hare)
1322 or 941 or 169
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1323 or 942 or 170

1196 (MCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1196th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 196th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 12th century, and the 7th year of the 1190s decade. As of the start of 1196, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

  • Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.
  • According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reached North America in what is present-day Alabama.
  • Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia
  • Creation of water boards in the region of present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.

Births

  • January 3 — Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
  • Alice of Champagne, daughter of Henry II of Champagne and regent of Jerusalem (d. 1246)

Deaths

  • August 15 — Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
  • King Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1152)
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
  • William Fitz Osbern
  • Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk