1222
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
Decades: | 1190s 1200s 1210s – 1220s – 1230s 1240s 1250s |
Years: | 1219 1220 1221 – 1222 – 1223 1224 1225 |
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1222 (MCCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1222nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 222nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1220s decade. As of the start of 1222, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
- Foundation of the University of Padua
- Completion of the Cistercian convent in Alcobaca, Portugal
- Eric XI becomes King of Sweden
- Premysl Ottokar I reunites Bohemia and Moravia
- John III Ducas Vatatzes becomes Byzantine emperor (in the Empire of Nicaea)
- Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan order
- April 17 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens a council at Osney
Births
- February 16 – Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
- August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
- Andrei II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1264)
Deaths
- March 10 – Johan Sverkersson, king of Sweden since 1216 (b. 1201)
- June 23 – Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
- August 2 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
- August 12 – Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia
- Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea