Sack of Constantinople
Byzantium shatters and never regains its former strength
Diverted by Venice, the Fourth Crusade stormed and sacked Christian Constantinople. Byzantium splintered into Latin and Greek states and never regained its former strength, while the rift between East and West deepened.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 19 years earlier
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 19 years later
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 12 years earlier
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 2 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 2 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 42)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 50)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 39)
- John Lackland (aged 38)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 22)
- Frederick II (aged 10)
- Jayavarman VII (aged 82)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (aged 80)
- Maimonides (aged 66)
- Tamar of Georgia (aged 38)