1236
Year 1236 was a leap year starting on Tuesday 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.
- 10 October - Razia Sultana becomes the first Muslim female ruler of the Indian Sub-Continent, deposing her half brother as Sultana of Delhi
- Only four of 58 districts in Sichuan, China, are captured from the Southern Song by the Mongols, under Ögedei Khan.
- Kalinga Magha, founder of the Aryacakravarti Dynasty, is expelled from Polonnaruwa to Jaffna, the capital of the Jaffna Kingdom.
- January 14 - Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
- June 29 - Córdoba, Andalusia, is taken by Castilian troops from the emir Ibn Hud, 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.
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