1204
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Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Sidebar". Template:C13 year in topicYear 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 27–28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.[1]
- February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is crowned Byzantine emperor.[2]
File:ConquestOfConstantinopleByTheCrusadersIn1204.jpg Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders - April 12 – Sack of Constantinople: Crusaders enter Constantinople by storm and start pillaging the city as part of the Fourth Crusade.[1] Forces of the Republic of Venice seize the antique statues that will become the horses of Saint Mark.[3]
- May 16 – Baldwin, Count of Flanders, is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire a week after his election by the members of the Fourth Crusade.[4]
- Theodore I Laskaris flees to Nicaea after the capture of Constantinople, and establishes the Empire of Nicaea; Byzantine successor states are also established in Epirus and Trebizond.[5][6]
- Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat, a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the Kingdom of Thessalonica.[7]
- The writings of French theologian Amalric of Bena are condemned by the University of Paris and Pope Innocent III.[8]
- Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III, after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.[9]
- Valdemar II of Denmark is recognized as king in Norway.[10]
- Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.[11][12]
- The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.[13]
- The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.[14]
- Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.[15]
- Beaulieu Abbey is founded.[16]
- The Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the English crown, after Normandy is recaptured by Philip II of France.[17]
- Landshut, Bavaria, is Founded.[18]
Births
- April 14 – Henry I, king of Castile (d. 1217)[19]
- Haakon IV of Norway (d. 1263)[20]
- Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1247)[21]
- Maria of Courtenay, Empress regent of Nicaea (d. 1228)
- Alice of Schaerbeek (d. 1250)[22]
Deaths
- January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway[20]
- January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor[23]
- February 8 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor[24]
- April 1 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Sovereign Duchess Regnant of Aquitaine, queen of France and England[25]
- August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway[26]
- August 14 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (b. 1182)[27]
- September 30 or November 30 – Emeric, King of Hungary (b. 1174)[28]
- c. October 21 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman[29]
- November – Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (b. 1163)[30]
- December 12 (or December 13) – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)[31]
- December 22 – Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese waka poet (b. 1114)[32]
- date unknown – Suleiman II, Sultan of Rûm[33]
- probable – Amalric of Bena, French theologian[34]
References
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