Children's Crusade
Thousands of youths set out to free Jerusalem unarmed
In 1212 a youth named Nicholas led crowds of young people and paupers from Cologne towards the sea, promising it would part before them. It did not, and none reached the Holy Land; historians think chroniclers called the poor of any age "children".
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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
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 20 years earlier
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 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
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)