Prince Igor's campaign
A failed raid becomes the subject of a great epic
In spring 1185, Prince Igor Svyatoslavich of Novgorod-Seversky attacked the Cumans, was defeated and captured. The campaign is the subject of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, the masterpiece of Old East Slavic literature.
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When Prince Igor marched against the Polovtsians in 1185, Notre-Dame had been under construction for 22 years. It would not be finished until the mid-14th century.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 22 years earlier
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 17 years later
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 19 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 7 years later
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 21 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 48)
- Genghis Khan (aged 23)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 59)
- Henry II (aged 52)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 38)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 31)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 28)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 20)
- John Lackland (aged 19)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 3)