1222
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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century
Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years: 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227
See also:
1222 state leaders
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 (died 1282)
- August 4 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
- Andrei II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (died 1264)
Deaths
- August 2 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (born 1156)
- Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia
- King John I of Sweden
- Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea
