Construction of Angkor Wat
The Khmer raise the world's largest religious monument
The Khmer king Suryavarman II began building Angkor Wat, a temple to Vishnu and probably his own mausoleum. It is the world's largest religious monument and a symbol of Khmer power, featured today on the flag of Cambodia.
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Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle in 1147 — around the time Angkor Wat was being completed in Cambodia.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — 25 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — same year
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — same year
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — 14 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Omar Khayyam (aged 65)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 60)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 15)
- Yuri Dolgoruky (aged 14)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 2)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 63)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 57)
- Henry I Beauclerc (aged 45)
- Lothair III (aged 38)
- Mstislav the Great (aged 37)