Magna Carta
Barons curb the king — a root of the rule of law
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Under pressure from rebel barons, King John of England sealed Magna Carta. The charter curbed arbitrary royal power and became a cornerstone of the ideas of the rule of law and constitutional government.
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Eight years after Magna Carta, the princes of Rus first met the Mongols and were crushed on the Kalka River.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 8 years later
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 22 years later
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 25 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 23 years earlier
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 9 years earlier
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 9 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 53)
- Kublai Khan (aged 0)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 50)
- John Lackland (aged 49)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 33)
- Frederick II (aged 21)
- Rumi (aged 8)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 1)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 93)
- Fibonacci (aged 45)