1220

This article is about the year 1220. For the number, see 1220 (number).

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

1220 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1220 in poetry

1220 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1220 MCCXX
Ab urbe condita	1973
Armenian calendar	669 ԹՎ ՈԿԹ
Assyrian calendar	5970
Bengali calendar	627
Berber calendar	2170
English Regnal year	4 Hen. 3 – 5 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1764
Burmese calendar	582
Byzantine calendar	6728–6729
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3916 or 3856     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3917 or 3857
Coptic calendar	936–937
Discordian calendar	2386
Ethiopian calendar	1212–1213
Hebrew calendar	4980–4981
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1276–1277
- Shaka Samvat	1142–1143
- Kali Yuga	4321–4322
Holocene calendar	11220
Igbo calendar	220–221
Iranian calendar	598–599
Islamic calendar	616–617
Japanese calendar	Jōkyū 2 (承久２年)
Julian calendar	1220 MCCXX
Korean calendar	3553
Minguo calendar	692 before ROC 民前692年
Thai solar calendar	1762–1763

Year 1220 (MCCXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• May 26 - German Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor grants bishops sovereign rights
• May – St. Francis of Assisi resigns from the leadership of the Franciscan Order.
• August 8 – Livonian Crusade: Estonians defeat the invading Swedes in the Battle of Lihula.
• November 22 – Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III.
• The Mongols first invade the Khwarazmian Empire; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken.
• The Dominican Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.
• Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land.
• Trial by ordeal is 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 Holland area.
• 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 lays waste to many civilizations and creates an empire that stretches from China to the Caspian Sea.
• The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established.
• St Benedict of Nursia was Canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
• Gothic architecture becomes increasingly popular in Europe.
• The rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed.
• Rebuilding of Amiens Cathedral begins.
• Rebuilding of York Minster begins.
• Building of the Salisbury Cathedral begins.
• Rebuilding of the city of London begins

Births

• April 1 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
• May 30 – Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• November 11 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
• Przemysł I of Poland (d. 1257)
• Thomas Ercildoun, Scottish minstrel (d. 1297)
• Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (d. 1271)
• Yaroslav of Russia, Grand Duke of Vladimir

Deaths

• February 17 – Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
• April 15 – Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
• June 1 – Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (b. 1176)
• November 3 – Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1186)
• Michael Choniates, Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic
• Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet
• Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (b. 1150)
• Mestwin I of Pomerania