1221

'Years:' 1219 1219 1220 - 1221 - 1222 1223 1224

'Decades:' 1190s 1200s 1210s - '1220s' - 1230s 1240s 1250s

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

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

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.

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, 2nd Earl of Norfolk