First shogunate in Japan
Power shifts from court to samurai for nearly seven centuries
Minamoto no Yoritomo, victor of the Genpei War, received the title of shogun and set up a military government at Kamakura. Real power passed from the imperial court to the samurai and stayed there for nearly seven centuries, until 1868.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 10 years later
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 12 years later
- 1215 Magna Carta — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 55)
- Genghis Khan (aged 30)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 66)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 45)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 38)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 35)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 27)
- John Lackland (aged 26)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 10)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 70)