The Leaning Tower of Pisa is begun
The bell tower started leaning at the second floor
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The cathedral bell tower was begun in 1173 on a foundation just three metres deep in soft soil. By 1178, at the second floor, it had begun to sink; wars halted the work for long stretches, and the tower was finished only in the 14th century — already leaning.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 12 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 19 years later
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 19 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 36)
- Genghis Khan (aged 11)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 75)
- Andrey Bogolyubsky (aged 62)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 47)
- Henry II (aged 40)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 26)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 19)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 16)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 8)