Third Crusade: capture of Acre
Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus take Acre from Saladin
After Jerusalem fell in 1187, the crusaders besieged Acre for two years until the kings of England and France arrived and forced Saladin's garrison to surrender. Jerusalem was not retaken, but Acre became the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem for a century.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1188 Magdeburg rights — 3 years earlier
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 11 years later
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 13 years later
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa — 21 years later
- 1215 Magna Carta — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — 6 years earlier
Asia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — 1 year later
- 1192 Second Battle of Tarain — 1 year later
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — 15 years later
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Saladin (aged 54)
- Genghis Khan (aged 29)
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (aged 65)
- Zhu Xi (aged 61)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (aged 44)
- Vsevolod the Big Nest (aged 37)
- Richard the Lionheart (aged 34)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 26)
- John Lackland (aged 25)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 9)