1205
Year 1205 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.Events
By area
Africa
- General Muhammad al-Inti b. Abi Hafs establishes Almohad domination over the eastern parts of Ifriqiya, and enters Tripoli.
Asia
- Theodore I Laskaris is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor, formally founding the Empire of Nicaea, after repelling the invasions of rivals David Komnenos and Manuel Maurozomes into his domains.
Europe
- January 6 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
- April 14 - Battle of Adrianople: The Bulgarians defeat the Latins.
- Anjou is conquered by Philip II of France. Fearing a French invasion of England itself, John of England requires every English male over 12 to enter an association "for the general defence of the realm and the preservation of peace".
- Othon de la Roche founds the Duchy of Athens.
- William of Wrotham, Lord Warden of the Stannaries of England, oversees a reform of English currency. In keeping with other high-ranking bureaucrats of his time and place, this is just one of Wrotham's many offices: he is also Keeper of the King's Ports & Galleys, supervisor of the mints of Canterbury and London, ward of the vacant Diocese of Bath and Wells, an archdeacon of Taunton, a canon of Wells, and will serve the following year as a circuit judge.
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