Jayavarman VII restores Angkor
A Buddhist king builds the Bayon's stone faces and 100 hospitals
After the Cham sacked Angkor in 1177, Jayavarman VII drove them out and was crowned in 1181. He built the new capital of Angkor Thom with the Bayon temple and its giant stone faces, as well as over a hundred hospitals and rest houses. Under him the Khmer Empire reached its greatest extent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — 18 years earlier
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 21 years later
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 44)
- Genghis Khan (aged 19)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 55)
- Henry II (aged 48)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 34)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 27)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 24)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 16)
- John Lackland (aged 15)
- Frederick Barbarossa (aged 59)