1223

This article is about the year 1223. For the number, see 1223 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1190s  1200s  1210s  – 1220s –  1230s  1240s  1250s
Years:	1220 1221 1222 – 1223 – 1224 1225 1226

1223 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1223 in poetry

1223 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1223 MCCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1976
Armenian calendar	672 ԹՎ ՈՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5973
Bengali calendar	630
Berber calendar	2173
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 3 – 8 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1767
Burmese calendar	585
Byzantine calendar	6731–6732
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3919 or 3859     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3920 or 3860
Coptic calendar	939–940
Discordian calendar	2389
Ethiopian calendar	1215–1216
Hebrew calendar	4983–4984
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1279–1280
- Shaka Samvat	1145–1146
- Kali Yuga	4324–4325
Holocene calendar	11223
Igbo calendar	223–224
Iranian calendar	601–602
Islamic calendar	619–620
Japanese calendar	Jōō 2 (貞応２年)
Julian calendar	1223 MCCXXIII
Korean calendar	3556
Minguo calendar	689 before ROC 民前689年
Thai solar calendar	1765–1766

Year 1223 (MCCXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 25 – Sancho II is crowned King of Portugal
• May 31 – Battle of the Kalka River: The Mongol armies of Genghis Khan defeat the Russian warriors.
• August 6 – Louis VIII is crowned King of France.
• Battle of Samara Bend: Volga Bulgars defeat the Mongol army.
• The Franciscan Rule is approved by Pope Honorius III.
• Failure of an attempt by the Sicilian fleet to reconquer Jerba.

• Livonian Crusade: Estonians revolt against the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and Denmark and for a brief period reconquer all of their strongholds except Tallinn.
• The Tatar Yoke in Russia begins when the Mongolian army invades after 87 years of the dominance of the Novgorod Republic state.

Births

• Eleanor of Provence, Queen consort of England (d. 1291)
• Baibars, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1277)
• Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (d. 1265)
• John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (d. 1267)
• Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Last Native Prince of Wales (d. 1282)

Deaths

• January 18 – Giorgi IV Lasha, King of Georgia (b. 1192)
• March 8 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161)
• March 25 – King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
• July 14 – King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
• date unknown
  • Giraldus Cambrensis Cambro-Norman clergyman and chronicler (b. 1146)
  • Mstislav III of Kiev
  • Mukhali, Mongol general
  • Unkei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1151)