1199

''This page is about the year 1199. For the labor union, see Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union.''

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ King Richard I of England is killed at the siege of Châlus. His younger brother, John Lackland, becomes King of England.

★ St Laurence Church, Ludlow is rebuilt on its Norman foundations.

Births

★ Jeanne of Flanders, countess of Flanders (d. 1244)

★ Isobel of Huntingdon, daughter of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1251)

★ King Guttorm of Norway (d. 1204)

Deaths

★ January 23 — Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)

★ February 9 — Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)

★ April 6 — Richard the Lionheart (King of England) (killed in battle) (b. 1157)

★ September 4 — Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)