1220

This page relates to the year 1220 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Foundation of the first Thai kingdom of Sukhothai.
Loss of the Champâ and beginning of the decline of the Khmer Empire under the reign of Indra Varman II (fine in 1243).

the Mongolian of Gengis Khan burn and shave Bukhara (February 16th), Samarkand (March) and Harat. Ogodeï, Djaghataï and Djötchi takes Gourandj, the capital of the Khârezm. They destroy the dams of the Amou-Daria to submerge the city and massacre the population of it. Muhammad Shah, incompetent to join together his forces divided between the feudal ones, flees with Ray, then with Hamadan. The generals Djebe and Subötai continue it with 25.000 men, but lose his trace in Iran.

December: Muhammad Chah dies shortly after of a pneumonia in an island of the Caspienne. His/her son Djala AD-DIN Mengü Berti gathers his forces with Ghaznî or Gengis Khan continues it (1221).

Djebe and Subötai beats the Georgia NS and shaves Hamadan.
Djötchi, of obscure birth, is scrambled with his/her father Gengis Khan for unknown reasons. During the countryside against the Turkestan, he lives withdrawn in his campings established in the passage of Tourgaï and does not interfere itself any more of the businesses his/her father.
the Mongols save the craftsmen and the scientists of Samarkand to send them like slaves in Mongolia.

Al-Kamel makes arm a fleet in the west with the delta, not far from Alexandria, which during the summer, crushes the Occidentaux vessels with broad of Cyprus. Al-Kamel renews its peace overtures near the legate Pélage, who refuses, always awaiting the arrival of Frederic II. This one will arrive in fact only eight years later.

November 22nd: Crown emperor Frederic II with Rome. He makes crown at the same time his son Henri King of the Romans.

Frederic II grants special privileges to the German ecclesiastical princes.
Conflict between His and Orvieto in order to make sure the possession of the county Aldobrandeschi.
Taken Tarragone by the Catalans.
Thomas, a Dominican English, canon of Uppsala, is named bishop in Finland and establishes Christianity at the Tavastes.
Eleven chiefs Lithuania NS, indicated by the Russian principalities, sign a peace with the principality of Volhynie (capital Vladimir). One of the signatories of peace, Mindaugas (the Mindowe of the Germans) gets rid of its adversaries and proclaims in 1239 supreme leader of the Lithuanians ( Kunigaikstis ). It then begins a rapid extension towards the east.

August 17th: Creation of the Medical school of Montpellier. The Conrad cardinal grants statutes the medical schools located around the Saint-Firmin church in Montpellier. The bishop of Maguelonne is made qualified examinations attribution of ranks, i.e. of diplomas.

Beginning of the construction of the cathedral of Salisbury in England (fine in 1280).
Beginning of the construction of the cathedral of Bourges (fine in 1270).
Rebuilding of the Cathedral of burnt Chartres in 1194 completed.
In the chapter of Bologna, Saint Dominique gives his first structures to the order of the preaching friars.
Arrived of the Franciscain S in the Greek world.
Snorri Sturluson writes the Saga de Saint Olaf (fine in 1230).
Completion of the Qutb Minar, 73 meters high minaret, with Delhi. (1220 - 1230).

Sax Grammaticus, Danish scholar (v. 1150-v. 1220). It made its studies with Paris and belongs to the entourage of the archbishop of Lund Absalon, which ordered to him the drafting of the Gesta Danorum .
in December, Went AD-DIN Muhammad, Chah of the Khwarezm.

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