1222 (MCCXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1222nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 222nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1220s decade. As of the start of 1222, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Gregorian calendar | 1222 MCCXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1975 |
| Armenian calendar | 671 ԹՎ ՈՀԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5972 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1143–1144 |
| Bengali calendar | 629 |
| Berber calendar | 2172 |
| English Regnal year | 6 Hen. 3 – 7 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1766 |
| Burmese calendar | 584 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6730–6731 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3918 or 3858 — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3919 or 3859 |
| Coptic calendar | 938–939 |
| Discordian calendar | 2388 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1214–1215 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4982–4983 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1278–1279 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1143–1144 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4322–4323 |
| Holocene calendar | 11222 |
| Igbo calendar | 222–223 |
| Iranian calendar | 600–601 |
| Islamic calendar | 618–619 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōkyū 4 / Jōō 1 (貞応元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1130–1131 |
| Julian calendar | 1222 MCCXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3555 |
| Minguo calendar | 690 before ROC 民前690年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −246 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1764–1765 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1348 or 967 or 195 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1349 or 968 or 196 |
Events
change- 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
change- 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
change- March 10 – Johan Sverkersson, king of Sweden since 1216 (b. 1201)
- June 23 – Constance of Aragon (b. 1179)
- August 2 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
- August 12 – Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia
- Theodore I Lascaris, founder of the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea