1222

1222 (MCCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1222nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 222nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1220s decade. As of the start of 1222, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Ab urbe condita	1975
Armenian calendar	671 ԹՎ ՈՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5972
Balinese saka calendar	1143–1144
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	1143–1144
- Kali Yuga	4322–4323
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)
Javanese calendar	1130–1131
Julian calendar	1222 MCCXXII
Korean calendar	3555
Minguo calendar	690 before ROC 民前690年
Nanakshahi calendar	−246
Thai solar calendar	1764–1765
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1348 or 967 or 195     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1349 or 968 or 196

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