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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 Ghengis 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 Subedei by Ghengis Khan to Georgia defeats two Georgian armies around Tblisi , 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

See also

1221 State Leaders