Lewis Chessmen
AD 1150-1200 · Resource
A hoard of intricately carved walrus-ivory chess pieces, probably made in Trondheim, Norway, and found on the Isle of Lewis. Among the most famous surviving medieval chess sets.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1175
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)