Sixth Crusade
An excommunicated emperor wins Jerusalem without a battle
Emperor Frederick II set off on crusade while excommunicated by the Pope. Instead of fighting, he negotiated with Sultan al-Kamil of Egypt, and in 1229 a treaty returned Jerusalem to the Christians for ten years.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 24 years earlier
- 1215 Magna Carta — 13 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 5 years earlier
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 9 years later
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 12 years later
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 14 years later
Asia
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 22 years earlier
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 22 years earlier
- 1219 The Mongols invade Khwarazm — 9 years earlier
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 23 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 13)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 7)
- Frederick II (aged 34)
- Rumi (aged 21)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 14)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 11)
- Rudolf I (aged 10)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 3)
- Fibonacci (aged 58)
- Yuri II of Vladimir (aged 39)