1222

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1190s  1200s  1210s  – 1220s –  1230s  1240s  1250s
Years:	1219 1220 1221 – 1222 – 1223 1224 1225

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