Magdeburg rights
Town self-government spreads east as far as Kyiv and Vilnius
In 1188 Archbishop Wichmann confirmed the rights of Magdeburg’s citizens, and the town law that grew up there became the model for hundreds of towns in Central and Eastern Europe. A town under Magdeburg law elected its own council, judged its residents and ran its trade free of the local lord. Kraków, Vilnius, Minsk, Polotsk, Kyiv and Lviv received it; in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in Ukraine it lasted into the first half of the 19th century.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 3 years earlier
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 4 years later
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 4 years later
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 18 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 51)
- Genghis Khan (aged 26)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 62)
- Henry II (aged 55)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 41)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 34)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 31)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 23)
- John Lackland (aged 22)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 6)