1206 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s
Years:	1203 1204 1205 – 1206 – 1207 1208 1209

1206 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1206 MCCVI
Ab urbe condita	1959
Armenian calendar	655 ԹՎ ՈԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5956
Balinese saka calendar	1127–1128
Bengali calendar	613
Berber calendar	2156
English Regnal year	7 Joh. 1 – 8 Joh. 1
Buddhist calendar	1750
Burmese calendar	568
Byzantine calendar	6714–6715
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3902 or 3842 — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3903 or 3843
Coptic calendar	922–923
Discordian calendar	2372
Ethiopian calendar	1198–1199
Hebrew calendar	4966–4967
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1262–1263
- Shaka Samvat	1127–1128
- Kali Yuga	4306–4307
Holocene calendar	11206
Igbo calendar	206–207
Iranian calendar	584–585
Islamic calendar	602–603
Japanese calendar	Genkyū 3 / Ken'ei 1 (建永元年)
Javanese calendar	1114–1115
Julian calendar	1206 MCCVI
Korean calendar	3539
Minguo calendar	706 before ROC 民前706年
Nanakshahi calendar	−262
Thai solar calendar	1748–1749
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1332 or 951 or 179 — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1333 or 952 or 180

1206 (MCCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1206th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 206th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 13th century, and the 7th year of the 1200s decade.

Events

Temujin becomes Genghis Khan of the Mongol people, he started the Mongol Empire
Qutb ud-Din starts the Mameluk dynasty in India, the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.
Livonian Brothers of the Sword in alliance with Semigallians beats Livs
King Valdemar II and archbishop Andreas Sunonis made a raid to Saaremaa island, Estonia. The islanders were forced to give up and the Danes built a fortress there, but they found no volunteers to stay there. They burned it down themselves and left the island.

Ikhtiyar al-Din Muhammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khalji – Founder of Muslim rule in Bengal
April 7 – Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
June 4 – Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France
Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (born 1162)
Jamuqa, Mongol military and political leader