1222

Year 1222 (MCCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1200s 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s
Years:	1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225

1222 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Ab urbe condita	1975
Armenian calendar	671 ԹՎ ՈՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5972
Balinese saka calendar	1143–1144
Bengali calendar	629
Berber calendar	2172
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 3 – 7 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1766
Burmese calendar	584
Byzantine calendar	6730–6731
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3918 or 3858     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3919 or 3859
Coptic calendar	938–939
Discordian calendar	2388
Ethiopian calendar	1214–1215
Hebrew calendar	4982–4983
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1278–1279
- Shaka Samvat	1143–1144
- Kali Yuga	4322–4323
Holocene calendar	11222
Igbo calendar	222–223
Iranian calendar	600–601
Islamic calendar	618–619
Japanese calendar	Jōkyū 4 / Jōō 1 (貞応元年)
Javanese calendar	1130–1131
Julian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Korean calendar	3555
Minguo calendar	690 before ROC 民前690年
Nanakshahi calendar	−246
Thai solar calendar	1764–1765
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1348 or 967 or 195     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1349 or 968 or 196

Events

Asia

• The Ghurid Dynasty capital of Firozkoh (in modern-day Afghanistan) is destroyed, by Mongol Emperor Ögedei Khan.[1][2][3]

Mesoamerica

• Chiconquiauhtzin becomes Ruler of the City-state Azcapotzalco at the Valley of Mexico[4][5]

Europe

• April 17 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in England, opens a council at Osney Abbey, Oxford.[6][7][8]
• May 11 – 1222 Cyprus earthquake.[9][10]
• August – After the death of John I of Sweden on March 10, 6-year-old Erik Eriksson is elected new King of Sweden (sometime between this time and July 1223).[11][12]
• December 15 – The Golden Bull of 1222 is issued in Hungary, limiting the power of the monarchy over the nobility.[13][14][15]
• December 25 – The 1222 Brescia earthquake is so powerful that the inhabitants of Brescia leave their city en masse and camp outside so that falling buildings would not crush them, according to chronicler Salimbene de Adam.[16]
• Livonian Crusade – The Danish fail in their attempt to conquer Saaremaa Island from the Estonians.[17]
• Ottokar I of Bohemia reunites Bohemia and Moravia.[18][19]
• The Cistercian convent in Alcobaça, Portugal, is completed.[20][21]
• Approximate date – The Royal Standard of Scotland is adopted.[22]
• Traditional date – The University of Padua is founded in Italy, by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.[23][24]

Births

• February 16 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)[25][26]
• August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)[27][28]
• Andrei II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1264)
• Queen Jeongsun (Wonjong) of Korea (d. 1237)

Deaths

• February 1 – Alexios Megas Komnenos, first Emperor of Trebizond[29][30]
• March 10 – Johan Sverkersson, king of Sweden since 1216 (b. 1201)[31][32]
• June 23 – Constance of Aragon, Holy Roman Empress, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1179)[33][34]
• August 2 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)[35][36]
• August 12 – Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia[37][38]
• Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea[39][40]

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