1204
Year 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
---|---|
Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
1204 by topic |
---|
Leaders |
|
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1204 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1204 MCCIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1957 |
Armenian calendar | 653 ԹՎ ՈԾԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5954 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1125–1126 |
Bengali calendar | 611 |
Berber calendar | 2154 |
English Regnal year | 5 Joh. 1 – 6 Joh. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 1748 |
Burmese calendar | 566 |
Byzantine calendar | 6712–6713 |
Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3900 or 3840 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3901 or 3841 |
Coptic calendar | 920–921 |
Discordian calendar | 2370 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1196–1197 |
Hebrew calendar | 4964–4965 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1260–1261 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1125–1126 |
- Kali Yuga | 4304–4305 |
Holocene calendar | 11204 |
Igbo calendar | 204–205 |
Iranian calendar | 582–583 |
Islamic calendar | 600–601 |
Japanese calendar | Kennin 4 / Genkyū 1 (元久元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1112–1113 |
Julian calendar | 1204 MCCIV |
Korean calendar | 3537 |
Minguo calendar | 708 before ROC 民前708年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −264 |
Thai solar calendar | 1746–1747 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1330 or 949 or 177 — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1331 or 950 or 178 |
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1204. |
Events
- January – Four-year-old Guttorm is proclaimed King of Norway; his "reign" ends with his death a few months later.[1]
- January 28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.[2]
- February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is proclaimed Byzantine emperor.[3]

Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders
- April 13 – Fourth Crusade: The Crusaders take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for 3 days. Forces of the Republic of Venice seize the antique statues that will become the horses of Saint Mark.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6][7]
- Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat, a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the Kingdom of Thessalonica.[8]
- The writings of French theologian Amalric of Bena are condemned by the University of Paris, and Pope Innocent III.[9]
- Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III, after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.[10]
- Valdemar II of Denmark is recognized as king in Norway.[11]
- Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.[12][13]
- The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.[14]
- The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.[15]
- Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.[16]
- Beaulieu Abbey is founded.[17]
- 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.[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)[22]
- Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Ra'îs of Manûrqa (d. 1282)
- Alice of Schaerbeek (d. 1250)[23]
Deaths
- January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway[20]
- January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor[24]
- February 8 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor[2]
- April 1 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Sovereign Duchess Regnant of Aquitaine, queen of France and England[25]
- August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway[1]
- August 14 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (b. 1182)[26]
- September 30 or November 30 – Emeric, King of Hungary (b. 1174)[27]
- c. October 21 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman[28]
- November – Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (b. 1163)[29]
- December 12 (or December 13) – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)[30]
- December 22 – Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese waka poet (b. 1114)
- date unknown – Suleiman II, Sultan of Rûm[31]
- probable – Amalric of Bena, French theologian[32]
gollark: As far as I know, the only person who is likely to have actually worked out how my compressor works is Olive, but I assure you that it's moderately weird.
gollark: That and the giant binary blobs.
gollark: LyricLy claims that it was obviously mine because of the formatting and use of numpy. This is wrong and ridiculous. The real reason it was obviously mine is that it does the usual gollark thing of just implementing a weird algorithm and not doing much else.
gollark: They scheduled it for 24 hours, bee.
gollark: Anyway, since LyricLy is done lyricing, it is time for me to ramble incoherently about my entry (#7±5).
References
- Þórðarson, Sturla (2012). "The Saga of Hacon, Hacon's Son". Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles. Volume 4: The Saga of Hacon, and a Fragment of the Saga of Magnus, with Appendices. Translated by George Webbe Dasent. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781108052498.
- Saint-Guillain, Guillaume (2011). "Tales of San Marco: Venetian Historiography and Thirteenth-century Byzantine Prosopography". In Herrin, Judith; Saint-Guillain, Guillaume (eds.). Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204. Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 274. ISBN 9781409410980.
- Melton, J. Gordon (2014). Faiths Across Time: 5,000 Years of Religious History. Volume 2: 500 - 1399 CE. Santa Barbara, CA, Denver CO and Oxford: ABC-CLIO. p. 798. ISBN 9781610690263.
- Queller, Donald E.; Madden, Thomas F. (1997). The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 195. ISBN 9780812217131.
- Tricht, Filip Van (2011). The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228). The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400 - 1500. Translated by Peter Longbottom. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 127. ISBN 9789004203921.
- Tricht, Filip Van (2011). The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228). Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 351. ISBN 9789004203235.
- Finlay, George (1877). A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864. Volume IV: Mediaeval Greece and the empire of Trebizond, A.D. 1204-1461. Clarendon Press. p. 121.
- Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society: 114. Volume I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society. p. 21. ISBN 9780871691149.
- Ciucu, Cristina (2018). "Being Truthful to 'Reality'. Grounds of non-violence in ascetic and mystical traditions.". In Chandra, Sudhir (ed.). Violence and Non-Violence across Time: History, Religion and Culture. London and New York: Taylor & Francis. p. 275. ISBN 9780429880933.
- Loos, Milan (1974). Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages. Prague: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 227. ISBN 9789024716739.
- Orfield, Lester B. (2002). The Growth of Scandinavian Law. Union, NJ: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 9781584771807.
- Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (2016) [1995]. Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995): An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Taylor & Francis. p. 33. ISBN 9781351665667.
- Jordan, Alyce A. (2016). "The St Thomas Becket Windows at Angers and Coutances: Devotion, Subversion and the Scottish Connection". In Webster, Paul; Gelin, Marie-Pierre (eds.). The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, C.1170-c.1220. Boydell & Brewer. p. 178. ISBN 9781783271610.
- Berlis, Angela (2017). "The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured". In Berlis, Angela; Korte, Anne-Marie; Biezeveld, Kune (eds.). Everyday Life and the Sacred: Re/configuring Gender Studies in Religion. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 174. ISBN 9789004353794.
- Heyberger, Joseph (1863). Bavaria: Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern : mit einer Uebersichtskarte des diesseitigen Bayerns in 15 Blättern. Oberpfalz und Regensburg, Schwaben und Neuburg ; Abth. 1, Oberpfalz und Regensburg. 2,1 (in German). Munich: Cotta. p. 467.
- Wihoda, Martin (2015). Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 91. ISBN 9789004303836.
- Church, Stephen (2015). King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant. Basingstoke and Oxford: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9780230772465.
- Farran, Sue; Örücü, Esin (2016). A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended. London and New York: Routledge. p. 90. ISBN 9781317186496.
- Thomas, Joseph (1870). Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott and Company. p. 1166.
- Wise, Leonard F.; Hansen, Mark Hillary; Egan, E. W. (2005). Kings, Rulers, and Statesmen. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 218. ISBN 9781402725920.
- Martin, Therese, ed. (2012). Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 Vol. Set). Visualizing the Middle Ages. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 1078. ISBN 9789004185555.
- "Latin Emperors". Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- State, Paul F. (2015). Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 30. ISBN 9780810879218.
- Carr, John (2015). Fighting Emperors of Byzantium. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. p. 269. ISBN 9781473856400.
- Koestler-Grack, Rachel A. (2005). Eleanor of Aquitaine: Heroine of the Middle Ages. Philadelphia, PA: Infobase Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 9781438104164.
- Henshall, Kenneth (2013). Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Scarecrow Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780810878723.
- Jaritz, Gerhard; Szende, Katalin (2016). Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective: From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317212249.
- Bartlett, Robert (2013) [2000]. England under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075-1225. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192547378.
- Clancy, Tim (2017) [2004]. Bosnia & Herzegovina 5. Chalfont St Peter and Guilford: Bradt Travel Guides. p. 260. ISBN 9781784770181.
- Seeskin, Kenneth (1991). Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed. Millburn, NJ: Behrman House, Inc. pp. xv. ISBN 9780874415094.
- Laale, Hans Willer (2011). Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine XI. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press. p. 394. ISBN 9781449716189.
- Eleyot, Lawrence (2016). Philosophy of One on the Many. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781524635817.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.