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Year 1222 (MCCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • April 17 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in England, opens a council at Osney Abbey, Oxford.
  • May 11 – Cyprus earthquake.
  • August – After the death of John I of Sweden on March 10, 6-year-old Erik Eriksson is elected new King of Sweden sometime between this time and July 1223.
  • Livonian Crusade: Failed Danish attempt to conquer Saaremaa Island from the Estonians.
  • The Cistercian convent is completed in Alcobaça, Portugal.
  • Ottokar I of Bohemia reunites Bohemia and Moravia.
  • Traditional date of foundation of the University of Padua in Italy by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • The Golden Bull of 1222 is issued in Hungary, limiting the power of the monarchy over the nobility.
  • Approximate date – Royal Standard of Scotland adopted

    • Births

  • February 16 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
  • August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
  • Andrei II of Russia, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1264)

    • Deaths

  • February 1 – Alexios Megas Komnenos, first Emperor of Trebizond
  • March 10 – Johan Sverkersson, king of Sweden since 1216 (b. 1201)
  • June 23 – Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
  • August 2 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
  • August 12 – Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia
  • Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea

    • References

    1222 Wikipedia
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