1220
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1190s 1200s 1210s – 1220s – 1230s 1240s 1250s |
| Years: | 1217 1218 1219 – 1220 – 1221 1222 1223 |
Contents |
[change] Events
- Middle Ages in Europe
- Fifth Crusade (1217-1221)
- Battle of Lihula in Estonia between Estonians and Swedes.
- 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. However, he failed to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.
[change] Architecture
- Gothic architecture in Europe
- Rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed
- Rebuilding of the York Minster begins
- Building of the Salisbury Cathedral begins
[change] 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)
[change] Deaths
- February 17 – Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
- 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
- Queen Urraca of Portugal spouse of King Afonso II of Portugal (born 1186)