Second Battle of Tarain
A Ghurid victory opens northern India to Muslim rule
Muhammad of Ghor, beaten here the year before, returned with a new army and defeated the Rajput ruler Prithviraj Chauhan. The way into the Gangetic plain lay open: Delhi passed to the Ghurids, and their governor Qutb ud-Din Aibak founded the Delhi Sultanate in 1206.
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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)