1224

Year 1224 (MCCXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (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:	1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227

1224 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1224 MCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1977
Armenian calendar	673 ԹՎ ՈՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	5974
Balinese saka calendar	1145–1146
Bengali calendar	631
Berber calendar	2174
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 3 – 9 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1768
Burmese calendar	586
Byzantine calendar	6732–6733
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 3920 or 3860     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3921 or 3861
Coptic calendar	940–941
Discordian calendar	2390
Ethiopian calendar	1216–1217
Hebrew calendar	4984–4985
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1280–1281
- Shaka Samvat	1145–1146
- Kali Yuga	4324–4325
Holocene calendar	11224
Igbo calendar	224–225
Iranian calendar	602–603
Islamic calendar	620–621
Japanese calendar	Jōō 3 / Gennin 1 (元仁元年)
Javanese calendar	1132–1133
Julian calendar	1224 MCCXXIV
Korean calendar	3557
Minguo calendar	688 before ROC 民前688年
Nanakshahi calendar	−244
Thai solar calendar	1766–1767
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1350 or 969 or 197     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1351 or 970 or 198

Events

Americas

• June 8 – Maya Long Count calendar: The eleventh b'ak'tun comes to an end, and the twelfth b'ak'tun begins the next day (June 9).
• The Chichimecas capture Tula.

Europe

• February – At Carrión, King Ferdinand III of Castile announces his intention to resume the Reconquista against al-Andalus.[1] This same year, the Almohad caliph, Yusuf II al-Mustansir, dies and is succeeded by Abu Muhammad al-Wahid, but in al-Andalus, two competing pretenders also claim their rights to the throne: Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Mansur al-Adil in Seville, and Abu Muhammad abu Abdallah al-Bayyasi in Córdoba, Andalusia. The chronic political instability on the Muslim side allows the Castilian prince to begin his campaign victoriously in October, with the capture of Quesada, Spain.
• The last Muslim inhabitants are expelled from Sicily and Malta.
• Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword defeat the Estonians, and reconquer the captured strongholds on the Estonian mainland. With the surrender of the Tartu stronghold, only the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu remain under Estonian control.
• Theodore Komnenos Doukas, ruler of the Despotate of Epirus, captures Thessaloniki, beginning the de facto Byzantine Empire of Thessalonica.

Education

• The University of Naples is founded.

Religion

• September 14 (approximate date) – St. Francis of Assisi, while praying on the mountain of Verna during a 40-day fast, has a vision, as a result of which he receives the stigmata. Brother Leo, who is with Francis at the time, leaves a clear and simple account of the event, the first definite account of the phenomenon of stigmata.[2]

Births

• March 5 – Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292)

Deaths

• July 1 – Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (b. 1163)
• August 15 – Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant (b. 1198)
• date unknown
  • Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht (b. 1153)
  • Xia Gui, Chinese painter (b. c. 1180) (approximate date)

References

1. Linehan, Peter (1999). "Chapter 21: Castile, Portugal and Navarre". In Abulafia, David (ed.). The New Cambridge Medieval History c.1198-c.1300. Cambridge University Press. pp. 668–699 [672]. ISBN 0-521-36289-X.
2. Robinson, Paschal (1909). "St. Francis of Assisi". The Catholic Encyclopedia. VI. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved January 21, 2008.