1212

Events 
 July 10 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground
 Battle of Navas de Tolosa
 Children's crusade
 Crusaders push the Muslims out of northern Spain
 In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese prose

 Births 
 March 22 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (died 1234)
 May 6– Constantia of Austria, Margravine of Meissen (died 1243)
 Yolande of Jerusalem (died 1228)
 Malatesta da Verucchio, Italian condottiero, founder of the Malatesta family (died 1312)
 Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants (died 1272)

 Deaths 
 March 26 – King Sancho I of Portugal (born 1154)
 April 12 – Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (born 1154)
 October 9 – Philip I of Namur, Marquis of Namur (born 1175)
 November 4 – Felix of Valois, French saint (born 1127)
 December 12 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (born 1152)
 Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
 William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale,
 Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, 5th Lord of Annandale
 Margaret of Huntingdon, eldest daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife (born 1180)
 Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem (born 1192)
 Peter de Preaux, Norman knight in the service of the Angevin kings of England
 Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (born 1156)
 Honen Shonin, founder of Jodo Shu, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism (born 1133)
 Robert of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bangor