High Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture
1192
Qutb Minar begun at Delhi
1192
Qutb al-Din Aibak, recently installed as governor of Delhi by Muhammad of Ghor, ordered construction of a victory tower of red sandstone beside the ruins of a Hindu temple his troops had demolished. At over two hundred feet, it would be the tallest minaret in the Islamic world when completed.
In context
Also in 1192 (6 other events on record)
- Yoritomo made Shogun · East Asia · Politics
- Second Battle of Tarain · South Asia · War
- Treaty of Jaffa · Middle East · Politics
- Richard captured by Leopold of Austria · Europe · Politics
- Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat · Middle East · Politics
- Al-Mansur builds the Giralda at Seville · Europe · Culture
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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