Years: 1219 1219 1220 - 1221 - 1222 1223 1224 | |
Decades: 1190s 1200s 1210s - 1220s - 1230s 1240s 1250s | |
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
1221 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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Category: Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Births – Deaths – Works | |
Art and literature | |
1221 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1221 MCCXXI
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Ab urbe condita | 1974 |
Armenian calendar | 670 ԹՎ ՈՀ |
Bahá'í calendar | -623 – -622 |
Buddhist calendar | 1765 |
Coptic calendar | 937 – 938 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1213 – 1214 |
Hebrew calendar | 4981 – 4982 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1276 – 1277 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1143 – 1144 |
- Kali Yuga | 4322 – 4323 |
Holocene calendar | 11221 |
Iranian calendar | 599 – 600 |
Islamic calendar | 617 – 618 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Imperial Year | Kōki 1881 (皇紀1881年) |
Julian calendar | 1266 |
Korean calendar | 3554 |
Thai solar calendar | 1764 |
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
- January - Mongol Army under Jochi captures the city of Gurganj (now Kunya-Urgench), and massacres the inhabitants, reported by contemporary scholars as being over a million killed, although probably only a fifth or a tenth of that in reality.
- February - Merv sacked by the Mongols under Tolui at the orders of Genghis Khan. Contemporary scholars report over a million people were systematically killed in the aftermath.
- Revolt against rulers of Chichen Itza by Maya of the Yucatán
- Nizhny Novgorod City (Russia) was founded.
- A large and highly efficient Mongol army, despatched under Subutai by Genghis Khan to Georgia defeats two Georgian armies around Tbilisi, but lacks the will or equipment to besiege the city.
- Genghis Khan enters the Indus Valley.
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)
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
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15 people were born in 1221
21 children were born to the 6 women born in 1221
24 people died in 1221
1027 people lived in 1221
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19 people were married in 1221.
There were 0 military battles in 1221.