Battle on the Ice
Alexander Nevsky halts the Livonian Order
Forces led by Prince Alexander Nevsky defeated the knights of the Livonian Order on the frozen Lake Peipus. The victory checked the Order's eastward advance into the lands of Novgorod and Pskov and became an emblem of Russian military history.
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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)
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 16 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 9 years later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 15 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 8 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 27)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 21)
- Frederick II (aged 48)
- Rumi (aged 35)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 28)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 25)
- Rudolf I (aged 24)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 17)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 3)
- Fibonacci (aged 72)