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1222

Events

• April 17 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens a council at Osney.
• The Cistercian convent is completed 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.
• The Manden Charter is proclaimed in Mali.
• The Golden Bull of 1222 is issued in Hungary.

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

• June 23 -Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
• August 2 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
• August 12 - Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia
• King John I of Sweden
• Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea