Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan
The birth of history's largest land empire
An assembly of Mongol nobles at the headwaters of the Onon proclaimed Temüjin Genghis Khan, supreme ruler of all the Mongols. Within decades the state he created became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 4 years earlier
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 2 years earlier
- 1215 Magna Carta — 9 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 21 years earlier
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 44)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 52)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 41)
- John Lackland (aged 40)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 24)
- Frederick II (aged 12)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 84)
- Tamar of Georgia (aged 40)
- Fibonacci (aged 36)
- Otto IV (aged 31)