Alhambra begun
Spain's last Muslim rulers build a palace-fortress
Around 1238 Muhammad I, founder of the Nasrid dynasty, began a fortified residence on the hill above Granada. The Alhambra's carved halls and courtyards became the pinnacle of Moorish art.
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The Battle on the Ice (1242) came just four years after work began on the Alhambra in Granada (1238).
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 15 years earlier
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 1 year earlier
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 2 years later
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 20 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 13 years later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 19 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 12 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 23)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 17)
- Frederick II (aged 44)
- Rumi (aged 31)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 24)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 21)
- Rudolf I (aged 20)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 13)
- Fibonacci (aged 68)
- Yuri II of Vladimir (aged 49)