1203
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| Years: 1200 1201 1202 – 1203 – 1204 1205 1206 |
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| Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
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| Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
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| 1203 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1203 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1203 MCCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1956 |
| Armenian calendar | 652 ԹՎ ՈԾԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -641 – -640 |
| Berber calendar | 2153 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1747 |
| Burmese calendar | 565 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6711 – 6712 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬戌年十二月十七日 (3839/3899-12-17) — to —
癸亥年十一月廿七日(3840/3900-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 919 – 920 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1195 – 1196 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4963 – 4964 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1258 – 1259 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1125 – 1126 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4304 – 4305 |
| Holocene calendar | 11203 |
| Iranian calendar | 581 – 582 |
| Islamic calendar | 599 – 600 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3536 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1746 |
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[edit] Events
- April 16 – Philip II of France enters Rouen, leading to the eventual unification of Normandy and France.
- April 8 – Congress of Bilino Polje: Ban Kulin officially declares his allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and denounces heresy.
- June 23 – The Fleet of the Fourth Crusade enters the Bosphorus.
- July 17 – The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III flees from his capital into exile.
- August 1 – The Fourth Crusade elevates Alexius IV as Byzantine Emperor, after the citizens of Constantinople proclaim as emperor Isaac II Angelus (Alexius IV's father).
- William de Braose, Fourth Lord of Bramber becomes the guardian of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, and is possibly responsible for his death.
- Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate
- Battle of Basiani: The Georgians defeat a Muslim coalition.
- The Almohads begin the conquest of the Balearic Islands.
- The Temple of Nataraja is completed by Chidanbaram of India.
[edit] Births
- Peter II of Savoy (d. 1268)
[edit] Deaths
- Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat (b. 1135)
- Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1187)
- Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd
[edit] Heads of states
- France – Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)
