1220
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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century
Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years: 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 - 1220 - 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225
See also:
1220 state leaders
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The world in 1220
Events
- Mongols first invade Abbasid caliphate - Bukhara and Samarkand taken
- End of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry
- Dominican Order approved by Pope Honorius III
- Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III
- Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land
- Trial by ordeal abolished in England
- The German Hohenstaufen dynasty which had ruled Sicily since 1194, adopts Palermo as its principal seat
- Dordrecht receives city rights, making it the oldest city in the present-day Netherlands
- Ljubljana receives its town rights
- The Islamic lands of Central Asia are overrun by the armies of the Mongol invader Genghis Khan (ca. 1155-1227), who laid waste to many civilizations and created an empire that stretched from China to the Caspian Sea. But he failed to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.
Architecture
- Gothic architecture in Europe
- Rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed
- Building of the York Minster begins
- Building of the Salisbury Cathedral begins
Births
- April 1 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (died 1272)
- November 11 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (died 1271)
- Thomas Ercildoun, Scottish minstrel (died 1297)
- Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
- Przemysł I of Poland (died 1257)
- Yaroslav of Russia, Grand Duke of Vladimir
- Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (died 1271)
Deaths
- April 15 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
- Michael Choniates, Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic
- Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet
- Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (born 1150)
- Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (born 1176)
- Mestwin I of Pomerania
- Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
