1236

This article is about the year 1236.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1233 1234 1235 – 1236 – 1237 1238 1239

1236 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1236 in poetry

1236 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1236 MCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1989
Armenian calendar	685 ԹՎ ՈՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5986
Bengali calendar	643
Berber calendar	2186
English Regnal year	20 Hen. 3 – 21 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1780
Burmese calendar	598
Byzantine calendar	6744–6745
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3932 or 3872     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3933 or 3873
Coptic calendar	952–953
Discordian calendar	2402
Ethiopian calendar	1228–1229
Hebrew calendar	4996–4997
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1292–1293
- Shaka Samvat	1158–1159
- Kali Yuga	4337–4338
Holocene calendar	11236
Igbo calendar	236–237
Iranian calendar	614–615
Islamic calendar	633–634
Japanese calendar	Katei 2 (嘉禎２年)
Julian calendar	1236 MCCXXXVI
Korean calendar	3569
Minguo calendar	676 before ROC 民前676年
Thai solar calendar	1778–1779

Year 1236 (MCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• Kouroukan Fouga, the constitution of the Mali Empire, is created.

Asia

• May 1 – Razia Sultana is the designated successor of her father to the Delhi Sultanate.
• Only 4 of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols under Ögedei Khan. The population of Chengdu, roughly one million inhabitants, is summarily slaughtered after the Mongols take the city with little effort.

Europe

• January 14 – Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
• June 29 – Córdoba, Andalusia, is taken by Castilian troops from the emir Ibn Hud al-Yamadi as part of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. The Great Mosque here becomes wholly a Roman Catholic cathedral.
• September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
• Volga Bulgaria is conquered by the Mongol Batu Khan.
• A tournament at Tickhill in England turns into a battle between northerners and southerners, but peace is restored by the papal legate.

By topic

Arts

• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St. Albans Abbey dies. His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.

Markets

• A drought causes the harvest to fail and leads to one of the great famines of the century in Europe.

Religion

• Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan Order.

Births

• June 6 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)

Deaths

• May 6 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler
• John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (b. c. 1179)