What is 1220?
{{Year nav|1220}} {{Year in various calendars|1220}} {{Year article header|1220}} == Events == * [[Middle Ages]] in [[Europe]] * [[Fifth Crusade]] ([[1217]]-[[1221]]) * [[Battle of Lihula]] in [[Estonia]] between [[Estonians]] and [[Swedes]]. * [[Mongols]] first invade [[Abbasids|Abbasid]] caliphate – [[Bukhara]] and [[Samarkand]] taken * End of the [[Kara-Khitan Khanate]], destroyed by [[Genghis Khan]]'s [[Mongolia|Mongolian]] cavalry * [[Dominican Order]] approved by [[Pope Honorius III]] * [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] crowned [[Holy Roman Emperor]] by [[Pope Honorius III]] * [[Conrad of Masovia]] drives out the heathen [[Prussia]]ns from a Masovian territory of [[Chelmno Land]] * [[Trial by ordeal]] abolished in [[England]] * The German [[Hohenstaufen]] dynasty which had ruled [[Sicily]] since [[1194]], adopts [[Palermo]] as its principal seat * [[Dordrecht]] receives [[city rights]], making it the oldest city in the present-day [[Netherlands]] * [[Ljubljana]] receives its town rights * The [[Islam]]ic lands of [[Central Asia]] are overrun by the armies of the [[Mongol]] invader [[Genghis Khan]] (ca. [[1155]]-[[1227]]), who laid waste to many civilizations and created an empire that stretched from [[China]] to the [[Caspian Sea]]. However, he failed to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia. == Architecture == * [[Gothic architecture]] in Europe * Rebuilding of the [[Cathedral of Chartres]], which had been destroyed by a fire in [[1194]], is completed * Rebuilding of the [[York Minster]] begins * Building of the [[Salisbury Cathedral]] begins == Births == * [[April 1]] – [[Emperor Go-Saga]] of Japan (died [[1272]]) * [[November 11]] – [[Alphonse of Toulouse]], son of [[Louis VIII of France]] (died [[1271]]) * [[Thomas Ercildoun]], Scottish minstrel (died [[1297]]) * [[Alexander Nevsky]], Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir * [[Przemysł I of Poland]] (died [[1257]]) * [[Yaroslav of Russia]], Grand Duke of Vladimir * [[Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster]] (died [[1271]]) == Dea