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| c. 1205 |
| | | Many of the treasures adorning the church of San Marco in Venice are loot taken from Constantinople during the fourth crusade | |
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| 1206 |
| | | Temujin, elected chief of all the Mongol tribes, takes the name Genghis Khan | |
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| 1208 |
| | | The murder of the pope's legate to Toulouse provokes the Albigensian crusade, which aims to wipe out the Catharist heresy | |
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| 1210 |
| | | St Francis and eleven companions tell Innocent III of their wish for a life of holy poverty in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1211 |
| | | The leader of a Turkish army establishes an independent sultanate in Delhi, beginning many centuries of Muslim rule in north India | |
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| 1212 |
| | | Participants in the Children's Crusade suffer disaster after the waters of the Mediterranean fail to part for them | |
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| 1215 |
| | | St Dominic and his companions tell Innocent III of their wish to teach and preach in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1215 |
| | | John, the king of England, fixes his seal to Magna Carta, which the barons place before him in a meadow called Runnymede | |
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| 1215 |
| | | In Magna Carta's lesser clauses (39 and 40) there are enshrined certain basic guarantees concerning the rule of law | |
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| 1216 |
| | | The Dominicans are formally established by Pope Honorius III as Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum, the Order of the Friars Preachers | |
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