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| Millennium | 
| 2nd millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 1216 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
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| Birth and death categories | 
| Births – Deaths | 
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | 
| Establishments – Disestablishments | 
| Art and literature | 
| 1216 in poetry | 
| Gregorian calendar | 1216 MCCXVI | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1969 | 
| Armenian calendar | 665 ԹՎ ՈԿԵ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5966 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 1137–1138 | 
| Bengali calendar | 622–623 | 
| Berber calendar | 2166 | 
| English Regnal year | 17 Joh. 1 – 1 Hen. 3 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1760 | 
| Burmese calendar | 578 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6724–6725 | 
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3913 or 3706 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3914 or 3707 | 
| Coptic calendar | 932–933 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2382 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1208–1209 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4976–4977 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1272–1273 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 1137–1138 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4316–4317 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11216 | 
| Igbo calendar | 216–217 | 
| Iranian calendar | 594–595 | 
| Islamic calendar | 612–613 | 
| Japanese calendar | Kenpō 4 (建保4年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 1124–1125 | 
| Julian calendar | 1216 MCCXVI | 
| Korean calendar | 3549 | 
| Minguo calendar | 696 before ROC 民前696年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −252 | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1758–1759 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1342 or 961 or 189 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1343 or 962 or 190 | 
Year 1261 (MCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.