Andrey Bogolyubsky's army sacks Kiev
The heart of Rus' shifts from the Dnieper to the northeast
Andrey Bogolyubsky, prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, sent an army against Kiev, and the city was plundered. Yet Andrey did not move there; he installed a younger brother and stayed in Vladimir. It symbolised a shift: the 'mother of Rus' cities' was no longer the centre of Rus'.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 32)
- Genghis Khan (aged 7)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 71)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 58)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 43)
- Henry II (aged 36)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 22)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 15)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 12)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 4)