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Events

• June 17 – Stephen Langton is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Innocent III.
• Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.
• King John issues letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool.
• November – Leeds, then a market town, received its first charter.
• Hōnen and his followers are exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings.

Births

• September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal
• September 30 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (d. 1273)
• October 1 - King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
• Henry II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1248)
• Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (d. 1231)
• Philip I of Savoy (d. 1285)

Deaths

• January 4 - Simon II, Duke of Lorraine
• June 17 - Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (b. 1130)
• Amaury of Bene, French theologian and 'heretic'
• Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria
• David Soslan, King Consort of Georgia
• Xin Qiji, Chinese general and poet (b. 1140)
• Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (b. 1152)

See also Category: 1207 deaths.

Head of State in 1207

• France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)
• Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan, Mongol Khan (from 1206 to 1227)
• Venice - Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (ruled from 1205 to 1229)
• England - John King of England (reigned from 1199 to 1216)
• Latin Empire of Constantinople - Henry of Flanders (reigned from 1205 to 1216)
• Pope - Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)