1235

1235 (MCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1235th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 235th year of the 2nd millennium, the 35th year of the 13th century, and the 6th year of the 1230s decade. As of the start of 1235, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1232 1233 1234 – 1235 – 1236 1237 1238

1235 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1235 MCCXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1988
Armenian calendar	684 ԹՎ ՈՁԴ
Assyrian calendar	5985
Balinese saka calendar	1156–1157
Bengali calendar	642
Berber calendar	2185
English Regnal year	19 Hen. 3 – 20 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1779
Burmese calendar	597
Byzantine calendar	6743–6744
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3931 or 3871     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3932 or 3872
Coptic calendar	951–952
Discordian calendar	2401
Ethiopian calendar	1227–1228
Hebrew calendar	4995–4996
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1291–1292
- Shaka Samvat	1156–1157
- Kali Yuga	4335–4336
Holocene calendar	11235
Igbo calendar	235–236
Iranian calendar	613–614
Islamic calendar	632–633
Japanese calendar	Bunryaku 2 / Katei 1 (嘉禎元年)
Javanese calendar	1144–1145
Julian calendar	1235 MCCXXXV
Korean calendar	3568
Minguo calendar	677 before ROC 民前677年
Nanakshahi calendar	−233
Thai solar calendar	1777–1778
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1361 or 980 or 208     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1362 or 981 or 209

Events

• The Normans invade Connacht.
• St. Elizabeth of Hungary is canonized by Pope Gregory IX. She died on November 17 1231 at age 24, either from physical fatigue or from disease, in Marburg.
• A general inquisition begins in France.
• The Byzantine emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes and the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II besiege Constantinople in an attempt to take it from its Latin rulers, John of Brienne and Baldwin II. Angelo Sanudo successfully negotiates a two-year truce.
• Sundiata Keita's victory at the Battle of Kirina marks the beginning of the Mali Empire.
• The Lancaster Royal Grammar School is founded.
• A Chinese text of this year records that Hangzhou City, the capital of the Song Dynasty, held various social clubs that included a West Lake Poetry Club, the Buddhist Tea Society, the Physical Fitness Club, the Anglers' Club, the Occult Club, the Young Girls' Chorus, the Exotic Foods Club, the Plants and Fruits Club, the Antique Collectors' Club, the Horse-Lovers' Club, and the Refined Music Society.

Births

• Henry of Almain, King of the Romans (died 1271)
• Pope Boniface VIII (approximate date; died 1303)
• Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (died 1283)
• Ramon Llull, Catalan writer and philosopher (died 1315)
• Saint Rose of Viterbo (died 1252)
• Arnold of Villanova, Spanish alchemist and physician (died 1311)
• Qian Xuan, Chinese painter (d. 1305)

Deaths

• January 14 – Saint Sava of Serbia (born 1175)
• September 5 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (born 1165)
• October 26 – Andrew II of Hungary (born 1175)
• Rabbi David Kimhi, Biblical commentator (born 1160)