1225

1225 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1225 MCCXXV
Ab urbe condita	1978
Armenian calendar	674 ԹՎ ՈՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	5975
Balinese saka calendar	1146–1147
Bengali calendar	631–632
Berber calendar	2175
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 3 – 10 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1769
Burmese calendar	587
Byzantine calendar	6733–6734
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3922 or 3715 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3923 or 3716
Coptic calendar	941–942
Discordian calendar	2391
Ethiopian calendar	1217–1218
Hebrew calendar	4985–4986
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1281–1282
- Shaka Samvat	1146–1147
- Kali Yuga	4325–4326
Holocene calendar	11225
Igbo calendar	225–226
Iranian calendar	603–604
Islamic calendar	621–622
Japanese calendar	Gennin 2 / Karoku 1 (嘉禄元年)
Javanese calendar	1133–1134
Julian calendar	1225 MCCXXV
Korean calendar	3558
Minguo calendar	687 before ROC 民前687年
Nanakshahi calendar	−243
Thai solar calendar	1767–1768
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 1351 or 970 or 198 — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 1352 or 971 or 199

Events

Autumn – Subutai is assigned a new campaign by Genghis Khan against the Tanguts. He crosses the Gobi Desert with a Mongol army and advances south into the Western Xia (or Xi Xia). Meanwhile, Genghis, in his mid-sixties, becomes wounded during hunting. His injury – a dislocated shoulder, perhaps, or a bruised rib – forces him to take some rest.^[1]
Iltutmish, Ghurid ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, repels a Mongol attack and invades Bengal. His rival, Ghiyasuddin, leads an army to halt Iltutmish's advance, but decides to avoid a conflict by paying him tribute and accepting his suzerainty.^[2]

July 25 – Emperor Frederick II takes an oath at San Germano (near Cassino) and promises to depart on a Crusade (the Sixth Crusade), for the Near East in August 1227. He sends 1000 knights to the Levant and provides Rome with 100,000 ounces of gold, to be forfeited to the Catholic Church should he break his vow. These funds will be returned to Frederick once he arrives at Acre.^[3]
November 9 – Frederick II marries the 14-year-old Queen Yolande, heiress to the kingdom of Jerusalem, and adds the Crusader States to his dominions.^[4]
November 29 – The 12-year-old Henry VII, by order of his father Frederick II, marries Margaret of Austria, daughter of Duke Leopold VI (the Glorious).
The Teutonic Knights are expelled from Transylvania by King Andrew II, because they wanted to separate from Hungary.

February 11 – The Charter of the Forest is restored to its traditional rights by King Henry III. 'Free men' are allowed to find pasture for their pigs, collect firewood, graze animals, or cut turf for fuel. At this time, however, only about 10 percent of the population is 'free', the rest are locked into service to a local landowner, some of them little more than slaves.^[5]
The Magna Carta is reaffirmed (for the third time) by Henry III, in return for issuing a property tax. It becomes the definitive version of the text.^[6]

Summer – Battle of Garni: Khwarezmid forces led by Jalal al-Din Mangburni defeat the Georgian army (some 70,000 men) at Garni. The royal court of Queen Rusudan moves to Kutaisi, while the Georgian capital Tbilisi is besieged by the Khwarezmians.
July 25 – Jalal al-Din Mangburni dethrones Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek, ruler (atabeg) of the Eldiguzids, and sets himself up in the capital of Tabriz (modern Iran).
October 5 – Caliph Al-Nasir dies from dysentery at Baghdad after a 45-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Al-Zahir as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.

The 8-year-old Henry I (the Fat) is crowned as king of Cyprus in the Cathedral of Saint Sophia at Nicosia. His uncle Philip of Ibelin orders the coronation, so that when Henry comes of age at fifteen a regency could not be prolonged on the ground that he is not yet crowned.^[7]

May 10 – Gerold of Lausanne, French bishop of Valence, becomes the new Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (until 1239).
June 10 – Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of two friars to Morocco. The bull is reissued in October when Honorius III exhorts the Dominican and Franciscan order to participate in that mission.^[8]
July 27 – Visby Cathedral in Sweden is consecrated.

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