1204
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This article is about the year 1204.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1170s 1180s 1190s – 1200s – 1210s 1220s 1230s |
| Years: | 1201 1202 1203 – 1204 – 1205 1206 1207 |
| 1204 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -640–-639 |
| 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 | 癸亥年十一月廿八日 (3840/3900-11-28) — to —
甲子年十二月初九日(3841/3901-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 920–921 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1196–1197 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4964–4965 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1260–1261 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1126–1127 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4305–4306 |
| Holocene calendar | 11204 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 204–205 |
| Iranian calendar | 582–583 |
| Islamic calendar | 600–601 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 1204 MCCIV |
| Korean calendar | 3537 |
| Minguo calendar | 708 before ROC 民前708年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1747 |
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Year 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
- January – Four-year-old Guttorm is proclaimed King of Norway; his "reign" ends with his death a few months later.
- January 28 – Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution.
- February 5 – Alexius V is proclaimed Byzantine emperor.
- April 13 – Fourth Crusade: The Crusaders take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for 3 days.
- 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.
- Theodore I Lascaris flees to Nicaea after the capture of Constantinople, and establishes the Empire of Nicaea; Byzantine successor states are also established in Epirus and Trebizond.
- Boniface of Montferrat, a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the Kingdom of Thessalonica.
- The writings of French theologian Amalric of Bena are condemned by the University of Paris and Pope Innocent III.
- Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.
- Valdemar II, King of Denmark, is recognized as king in Norway.
- Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.
- The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.
- The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.
- Hermann I of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.
- Beaulieu Abbey is founded.
- Guernsey and Jersey decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the English crown after Normandy was recaptured by Philip II of France.
Births [edit]
- Haakon IV, King of Norway (d. 1263)
- Heinrich Raspe, Landgraf of Thuringia (d. 1247)
- Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, Ra'îs of Manûrqa (d. 1282)
Deaths [edit]
- January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway
- January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor
- February 8 – Alexius IV Angelus, Byzantine Emperor
- April 1 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England
- August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway
- August 14 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
- September 30 (or November 30) – Emeric of Hungary (b. 1174)
- October 21 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
- December 13 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
- Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (b. 1163)
- date unknown – Suleiman II of Rum
- probable – Amalric of Bena, French theologian
