1221
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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century
Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years: 1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 - 1221 - 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226
See also:
1221 state leaders
Events
- May 13 - End of the reign of Emperor Juntoku, emperor of Japan
- Emperor Chūkyō briefly reigns over Japan
- Former Emperor Go-Toba leads an unsuccessful rebellion against the Kamakura Shogunate
- Emperor Go-Horikawa ascends to the throne of Japan
- Merv sacked by the Mongols
- Revolt against rulers of Chichen Itza by Maya of the Yucatán
- Nizhny Novgorod City (Russia) was founded.
Births
- October 9 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
- November 23 - King Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284)
- Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (died 1274)
- Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland (died 1279)
- Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (died 1274)
Deaths
- August 6 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (born 1170)
- October 4 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (born 1179)
- October 21 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (born 1201)
- Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk
