1208

Events 
 January 31 – Inferior Swedish forces defeats the invading danes in Battle of Lena.
 June 21 – Philip of Swabia King of Germany and rival Holy Roman Emperor to Otto IV, assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.
 With the help of the newly converted local tribes of Livs and Letts, the crusaders initiated raids into part of what is present-day Estonia and Estonian ancient fight for independence began (lasted until 1227).

 Births 
 February 2 – King James I of Aragon (died 1276)
 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (died 1275)
 Möngke Khan of the Mongol Empire
 Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (died 1265)
 Akerian Redfern of the Redfern clan

 Deaths 
 April 22 – Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
 June 21 – Philip of Swabia, king of Germany
 November 9 – Sancha of Castile, queen of Alfonso II of Aragon (born 1155)
 Amhaoibh O'Rothlain, Chief of Calruidhe Cuile Cearnadha