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Events
· January 15 - Peter of Castelnau is killed by a vassal of Raymond VI of
Toulouse, who is held responsible and excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.
· January 31 - Battle of Lena: Inferior Swedish forces defeat the
invading Danes.
· March 24 - Pope Innocent III places England under an interdict, after
King John of England rejects his choice for Archbishop of Canterbury.
· April 15- A fire breaks out in the Song Chinese capital city of
Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58,097 over an area of
more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded amount of other
people who are trampled while attempting to flee. The government provides
temporary lodging for 5,345 people in nearby Buddhist and Taoist
monasteries. The collective victims of the disaster are given 160,000
strings of cash, along with 400 tons of r
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