Years: 1217 1218 1219 - 1220 - 1221 1222 1223

Decades: 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1220 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1220 in poetry v • d • e

1220 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1220 MCCXX
Ab urbe condita	1973
Armenian calendar	669 ԹՎ ՈԿԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-624 – -623
Berber calendar	2170
Buddhist calendar	1764
Burmese calendar	582
Byzantine calendar	6728 – 6729
Chinese calendar	己卯年十一月廿四日 (3856/3916-11-24) — to — 庚辰年十二月初五日 (3857/3917-12-5)
Coptic calendar	936 – 937
Ethiopian calendar	1212 – 1213
Hebrew calendar	4980 – 4981
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1275 – 1276
- Shaka Samvat	1142 – 1143
- Kali Yuga	4321 – 4322
Holocene calendar	11220
Iranian calendar	598 – 599
Islamic calendar	616 – 617
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3553
Thai solar calendar	1763
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Contents 1 Events 2 Architecture 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Office holders 6 Ongoing Events

Events

• May - St. Francis of Assisi resigns from the leadership of the Franciscan Order.
• August 8 - Battle of Lihula: The Estonians defeat the invading Swedes.
• November 22 - Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III.
• The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken.
• The Kara-Khitan Khanate is destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry.
• 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 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 lays waste to many civilizations and creates an empire that stretches from China to the Caspian Sea. However, he fails to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.
• The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established.
• St Benedict of Nursia was Canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Architecture

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

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 (b. 1150)
• Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (b. 1176)
• Mestwin I of Pomerania
• Queen Urraca of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1186)

Office holders

• List of state leaders in 1220
• List of religious leaders in 1220

Ongoing Events

• Middle Ages in Europe
• Fifth Crusade (1217-1221)
• Pager number of the legendary Dr Greg of Australia