Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir
Andrey Bogolyubsky builds the new capital's main church
Andrey Bogolyubsky, who moved the capital of north-eastern Rus' to Vladimir, founded the white-stone Dormition Cathedral and placed in it the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir. It became the model for the 15th-century Dormition Cathedral in Moscow.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 5 years later
Africa
- 1147 The Almohads take Marrakesh — 11 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 21)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 60)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 47)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 32)
- Zhu Xi (aged 28)
- Henry II (aged 25)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 11)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 4)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 1)
- Louis VII the Young (aged 38)