1204
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| 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) 3901 or 3694 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3902 or 3695 |
| 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 |
Year 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January – Four-year-old Guttorm is proclaimed King of Norway; his "reign" ends with his death a few months later.
- January 28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.
- February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is proclaimed Byzantine emperor.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Boniface I, Marquess 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 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, Landgrave of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.
- Beaulieu Abbey is founded.
- 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.
Births
- Haakon IV of Norway (d. 1263)
- Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1247)
- Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Ra'îs of Manûrqa (d. 1282)
- Alice of Schaerbeek (d. 1250)
Deaths
- January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway
- January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor
- February 8 – Alexios IV Angelos, 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, King 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