Year 1213 (MCCXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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• May 15 John, King of England submits to Pope Innocent III, who in turn lifts the interdict of 1208 the following year.

• May 30 Battle of Damme: The English fleet under William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, destroys a French fleet off the Belgian port in the first major victory for the fledgling Royal Navy.

• September 12 Battle of Muret: The Toulousain and Aragonese forces of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon are defeated by the Albigensian Crusade, under Simon de Montfort.

• Jin China is overrun by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only Beijing remains free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege.

• Pope Innocent III issues a charter calling for the Fifth Crusade to recapture Jerusalem.

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• Construction of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland is completed.

Births

• March 9 Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)

• June 10 Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian philosopher and Sufi mystic

• Ibn al-Nafis, polymath (d. 1288)

• Hethum I, King of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (d. 1270)

Deaths

• January 18 Queen Tamar I of Georgia (b. c. 1160)

• April 13 Guy of Thouars, regent of Brittany

• April 21 Maria of Montpellier, Lady of Montpellier, Queen of Aragon (b. 1182)

• September 12 King Peter II of Aragon (killed in battle) (b. 1174)

• September 28 Gertrude of Merania, queen consort regent of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)

• October 10 Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine

• October 14 Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex

• Sharafeddin Tusi, Persian mathematician (b. 1135)

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