1220

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1190s 1200s 1210s – 1220s – 1230s 1240s 1250s
Years:	1217 1218 1219 – 1220 – 1221 1222 1223

1220 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1220 in poetry

Events

May – St. Francis of Assisi resigns from the leadership of the Franciscan Order.
August 8 – Battle of Lihula: The Estonians defeat the invading Swedes.
November 22 – Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III.
The Mongols first invade the Abbasid Caliphate; Bukhara and Samarkand are taken.
The Dominican Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.
Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land.
Trial by ordeal is 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 Islamic lands of Central Asia are overrun by the armies of the Mongol invader Genghis Khan (ca. 1155–1227), who lays waste to many civilizations and creates an empire that stretches from China to the Caspian Sea. However, he fails to destroy the strength of Islam in Central Asia.
The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established.
St Benedict of Nursia was Canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Gothic architecture becomes increasingly popular in Europe.
The 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.
Rebuilding of the city of London begins