1222

1222 was a common year.

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

Events

Foundation of the University of Padua
Completion of the Cistercian convent in Alcobaca, Portugal
Eric XI becomes King of Sweden
Premysl Ottokar I reunites Bohemia and Moravia
John III Ducas Vatatzes becomes Byzantine emperor (in the Empire of Nicaea)
Alexander of Hales enters the Franciscan order
April 17 – Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens a council at Osney

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

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

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