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Years: 1217 1218 1219 1220 1221 1222 1223 1224 1225 1226 1227

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1222 State Leaders

EVENTS

Foundation of the University Of Padua

Completion of the Cistercian convent 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

April 17 - Stephen Langton , Archbishop Of Canterbury , opens a council at Osney

BIRTHS

February 16 - Nichiren , Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (died 1282 )

August 4 - Richard De Clare, 6th Earl Of Hertford , English soldier (d. 1262 )

Andrei II Of Russia , Grand Prince of Vladimir (died 1264 )

DEATHS

August 2 - Count Raymond VI Of Toulouse (born 1156 )

Ladislaus Jindrich Of Bohemia

King John I Of Sweden

Theodore I Lascaris , founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea