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==== Art and Culture ====
* [[Sugar]], an import from the [[Muslim world]], is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account. [[Almond]]s, [[cinnamon]], [[ginger]], and [[nutmeg]] are also imported for royal banquets.<ref name="King John">{{cite book|title=King John|first=W. L.|last=Warren|publisher=University of California Press|year=1961|pages=11, 139}}</ref>

==== Religion ====
* A [[peasant]] named Thurkhill in England claims that Saint Julian took him on a tour of [[Purgatory]]. Thurkhill includes realistic touches of descriptions of Purgatory's torture chambers. This is also believed by [[Roger of Wendover]], one of his society's leading historians.<ref name="King John" />
* December &ndash; The monks of [[Diocese of Canterbury|Canterbury]] want their own sub-prior [[Reginald (sub-prior)|Reginald]] for the post of archbishop, while King John chooses [[John de Gray]]. [[Pope Innocent III]] appoints [[Stephen Langton]]. Finally, the monks accept the Pope's decision and vote for Langton.

==== Technology ====
* The Arab engineer [[Ismail al-Jazari]] describes many mechanical inventions in his book (title translated to English) ''The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices''.</onlyinclude>