1221

Categories: 1221

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

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

Years: 1216 1217 1218 1219 1220 - 1221 - 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226

---

Events

• May 13 - End of the reign of Emperor Juntoku, emperor of Japan
• Emperor Chūkyō briefly reigns over Japan
• Former Emperor Go-Toba leads an unsuccessful rebellion against the Kamakura Shogunate
• Emperor Go-Horikawa ascends to the throne of Japan
• Merv sacked by the Mongols
• Revolt against rulers of Chichen Itza by Maya of the Yucatán
• Nizhny Novgorod City (Russia) was founded.

Births

• October 9 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
• November 23 - King Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284)
• Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (died 1274)
• Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland (died 1279)
• Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (died 1274)

Deaths

• August 6 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (born 1170)
• October 4 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (born 1179)
• October 21 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (born 1201)
• Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolkaf:1221

ast:1221 bg:1221 bs:1221 ca:1221 cs:1221 cy:1221 da:1221 de:1221 et:1221 el:1221 es:1221 eo:1221 eu:1221 fr:1221 ko:1221년 hr:1221 io:1221 it:1221 lb:1221 hu:1221 mk:1221 nl:1221 no:1221 nn:1221 pl:1221 pt:1221 ro:1221 ru:1221 sk:1221 sl:1221 sr:1221 fi:1221 sv:1221 tt:1221 tr:1221 uk:1221 zh:1221年