Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
Spain's Christian kings crush the Almohads
The combined army of Castile, Aragon, Navarre and Portugal defeated the Almohad caliph al-Nasir in the Sierra Morena. The battle broke Almohad power: within forty years the Christians took Córdoba, Valencia and Seville.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 11 years later
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1191 Third Crusade: capture of Acre — 21 years earlier
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 20 years earlier
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 6 years earlier
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 6 years earlier
- 1219 The Mongols invade Khwarazm — 7 years later
- 1227 Fall of Western Xia and death of Genghis Khan — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 50)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 58)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 47)
- John Lackland (aged 46)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 30)
- Frederick II (aged 18)
- Rumi (aged 5)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 90)
- Tamar of Georgia (aged 46)
- Fibonacci (aged 42)