1222

'Years:' 1219 1220 1221 - 1222 - 1223 1224 1225

'Decades:' 1190s 1200s 1210s - '1220s' - 1230s 1240s 1250s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

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

★ Manden Charter proclaimed in Mali

★ April 17 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens a council at Osney

★ Golden Bull of 1222 in Hungary

Births

★ February 16 - Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (died 1282)

★ August 4 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (died 1262)

★ Andrei II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (died 1264)

Deaths

★ June 23 -Constance of Aragon (born 1179)

★ August 2 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (born 1156)

★ August 12 - Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia

★ King John I of Sweden

★ Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea