1223
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Events

• March 25 - Sancho II is crowned King of Portugal
• May 31 - Battle of the Kalka River: The Mongol armies of Genghis Khan decisively defeat the East Slavic warriors.
• August 6 - Louis VIII is crowned King of France.
• The Franciscan Rule is approved by Pope Honorius III.
• For a short time all Germans are forced out of Estonia.

Births

• John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (d. 1267)
• Baibars, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1277)
• Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (d. 1265)

Deaths

• 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)
• Giorgi IV Lasha, King of Georgia (b. 1192)
• Giraldus Cambrensis Cambro-Norman clergyman and chronicler (b. 1146)
• Mstislav III of Kiev
• Mukhali, Mongol general
• Unkei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1151)