1194

This article is about the year 1194.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1191 1192 1193 – 1194 – 1195 1196 1197

1194 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1194 in poetry

1194 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1194 MCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	1947
Armenian calendar	643 ԹՎ ՈԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	5944
Bahá'í calendar	-650–-649
Bengali calendar	601
Berber calendar	2144
English Regnal year	5 Ric. 1 – 6 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar	1738
Burmese calendar	556
Byzantine calendar	6702–6703
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十二月初七日 (3830/3890-12-7) — to — 甲寅年十一月十七日 (3831/3891-11-17)
Coptic calendar	910–911
Ethiopian calendar	1186–1187
Hebrew calendar	4954–4955
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1250–1251
- Shaka Samvat	1116–1117
- Kali Yuga	4295–4296
Holocene calendar	11194
Iranian calendar	572–573
Islamic calendar	590–591
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3527
Minguo calendar	718 before ROC 民前718年
Thai solar calendar	1737

Year 1194 (MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February 4 – Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• June 10 – A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.
• July 3 – Battle of Freteval: Richard I of England reconquers his French fiefdoms from Philip II Augustus.
• July 5 – Emperor Guangzong of Song China is forced to give up his throne.
• November 20 – Palermo falls to Henry VI.
• December 25 – Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.
• The city of Portsmouth is awarded its Royal Charter.
• Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• The Yellow River of China experiences a major course change, taking over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.
• The Danes attack Estonia.
• Seljuq dynasty of Hamadan ends.

Births

• July 16 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
• December 26 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)

Deaths

• February 20 – King Tancred of Sicily
• May 5 – King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
• June 27 – King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. c. 1133)
• June 28 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)
• September 27 – Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b. 1125)
• November 15 – Margaret I of Flanders
• December 31 – Duke Leopold V of Austria (at a tournament) (b. 1157)
• Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler
• Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)
• Raymond V of Toulouse (b. 1134)
• Roger III of Sicily (b. 1175)
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev