1220 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s

Years: 1215 1216 1217 1218 1219 - 1220 - 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225

The world in 1220

• Middle Ages in Europe
• Fifth Crusade (1217-1221)

• Mongols first invade Abbasid caliphate - Bukhara and Samarkand taken
• End of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry
• Dominican Order approved by Pope Honorius III
• Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III
• Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land
• Trial by ordeal 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 laid waste to many civilizations and created an empire that stretched from China to the Caspian Sea. But he failed to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.

• Gothic architecture in Europe
• Rebuilding of the Cathedral of Chartres, which had been destroyed by a fire in 1194, is completed
• Building of the York Minster begins
• Building of the Salisbury Cathedral begins

• Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (+1272)
• Alexander Nevsky (+1263), leader of the Russian principality of Novgorod
• Alphonse of Toulouse (+1271), son of Louis VIII, King of France

• Michael Choniates (b. c. 1140), Byzantine writer and ecclesiastic

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

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