1206 (MCCVI) was .

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.

1206

Births

Béla IV of Hungary (died 1270) Güyük Khan

1206

Deaths

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

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