Sukhothai, the first Thai kingdom
Thai chiefs throw off Khmer rule
Around 1238 Thai chiefs expelled the Khmer governor from Sukhothai, and Si Inthrathit became its first king. Sukhothai is regarded as the first Thai state; under Ram Khamhaeng it spread Theravada Buddhism, and tradition credits him with the Thai script. In the 15th century the kingdom was absorbed by Ayutthaya.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1215 Magna Carta — 23 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 15 years earlier
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 1 year earlier
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 2 years later
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 20 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 12 years later
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- Kublai Khan (aged 23)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 17)
- Frederick II (aged 44)
- Rumi (aged 31)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 24)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 21)
- Rudolf I (aged 20)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 13)
- Fibonacci (aged 68)
- Yuri II of Vladimir (aged 49)