Great Buddha of Kamakura
A giant bronze Buddha has sat outdoors for 500 years
Casting of the bronze Buddha, over 13 m tall with its base, began in 1252. Storms wrecked the hall around it several times, and in 1498 a tsunami washed it away; ever since, the Buddha has sat in the open air.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 15 years earlier
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 12 years earlier
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 10 years earlier
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 6 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 37)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 31)
- Rumi (aged 45)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 38)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 35)
- Rudolf I (aged 34)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 27)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 13)
- Henry III (aged 45)
- Conrad IV (aged 24)