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Year 1223 (MCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • March 25 – Sancho II is crowned King of Portugal
  • May 31 – Battle of the Kalka River: The Mongol armies of Genghis Khan defeat the Russian warriors.
  • August 6 – Louis VIII is crowned King of France.
  • Battle of Samara Bend: Volga Bulgars defeat the Mongol army.
  • The Franciscan Rule is approved by Pope Honorius III.
  • Failure of an attempt by the Sicilian fleet to reconquer Jerba.
  • Livonian Crusade: Estonians revolt against the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and Denmark and for a brief period reconquer all of their strongholds except Tallinn.
  • The Tatar Yoke in Russia begins when the Mongolian army invades after 87 years of the dominance of the Novgorod Republic state.
  • Births

  • Eleanor of Provence, Queen consort of England (d. 1291)
  • Baibars, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1277)
  • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (d. 1265)
  • John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (d. 1267)
  • Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Last Native Prince of Wales (d. 1282)
  • Deaths

  • March 8 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161)
  • March 25 – King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
  • July 14 – King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
  • date unknown
  • Giraldus Cambrensis Cambro-Norman clergyman and chronicler (b. 1146)
  • Mstislav III of Kiev
  • Muqali, Mongol general
  • Unkei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1151)
  • References

    1223 Wikipedia