border of the Mongol Empire. Hōnen and his followers of the Pure Land sect are persecuted and exiled to remote parts of Japan, while a few are executed, for what the government considers heretical Buddhist teachings. Before 1207 – Kosho writes Kuya Preaching, during the Kamakura period (it is now kept at Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple in Kyoto). October 7 – The Indramayu Regency in Nusantara is established. By topic Economy The first documentary evidence of forced loans in Venice. This technique becomes the staple of public finance in Europe, until the 16th century. Religion June 17 – Stephen Langton is consecrated as archbishop of Canterbury, by Innocent III at Viterbo. Births July 7 – Elizabeth of Hungary, Hungarian princess (d. 1231) August 13 – Malik ibn al-Murahhal, Moroccan poet (d. 1299) September 30 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (d. 1273) October 1 – Henry III (Winchester), English king (d. 1272) Adelasia of Torres, Italian noblewoman and judge (d. 1259) Canute (or Knud Valdemarsen), duke of Estonia (d. 1260) Elen ferch Llywelyn (the Elder), English countess (d. 1253) Fujiwara no Akiuji, Japanese nobleman and poet (d. 1274) Fujiwara no Ariko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1286) Gilbert Marshal, English nobleman and knight (d. 1241) Henry II, Dutch nobleman (House of Reginar) (d. 1248) Jakuen, Japanese Buddhist monk and scholar (d. 1299) John of Scotland, Scottish nobleman and knight (d. 1237) Margaret of Louvain, Flemish servant and saint (d. 1237) Ottone Visconti, Italian nobleman and archbishop (d. 1295) Philip I, French nobleman (House of Savoy) (d. 1285) Raymond II (or Raimond), French nobleman (d. 1263) Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Persian philosopher (d. 1274) Vladislaus II, Bohemian nobleman and knight (d. 1227) Deaths February 7 – Sambor I, duke of Pomerania (b. 1150) March 1 – Fernando Afonso, Portuguese Grand Master May 3 – Fujiwara no Kanezane, Japanese nobleman May 7 – Abdul Razzaq Gilani, Persian jurist (b. 1134) June 6 – Gerardo dei Tintori, Italian mystic (b. 1134) June 13 – Xie, Chinese empress consort (b. 1135) June 19 – Ubaldo Lanfranchi, Italian archbishop August 21 – Simon of Wells, bishop of Chichester September 4 Boniface I of Montferrat, Italian nobleman Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, French troubadour October – Kaloyan, ruler (tsar) of the Bulgarian Empire October 3 – Xin Qiji, Chinese general and poet (b. 1140) November 3 – Hartwig II, German archbishop November 24 – Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (b. 1152) unknown date