1222

This article is about the year 1222.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1190s  1200s  1210s  – 1220s –  1230s  1240s  1250s
Years:	1219 1220 1221 – 1222 – 1223 1224 1225

1222 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1222 in poetry

1222 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Ab urbe condita	1975
Armenian calendar	671 ԹՎ ՈՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5972
Bengali calendar	629
Berber calendar	2172
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 3 – 7 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1766
Burmese calendar	584
Byzantine calendar	6730–6731
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3918 or 3858     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3919 or 3859
Coptic calendar	938–939
Discordian calendar	2388
Ethiopian calendar	1214–1215
Hebrew calendar	4982–4983
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1278–1279
- Shaka Samvat	1144–1145
- Kali Yuga	4323–4324
Holocene calendar	11222
Igbo calendar	222–223
Iranian calendar	600–601
Islamic calendar	618–619
Japanese calendar	Jōkyū 4 / Jōō 1 (貞応元年)
Julian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Korean calendar	3555
Minguo calendar	690 before ROC 民前690年
Thai solar calendar	1764–1765

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

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, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
• August 4 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 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 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• August 12 – Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia
• Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea