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: |
| 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 |
Events
edit- January 27–28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.[1]
- February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is crowned Byzantine emperor.[2]
Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders - April 12 – Sack of Constantinople: Crusaders enter Constantinople by storm and start pillaging the city as part of the Fourth Crusade.[1] Forces of the Republic of Venice seize the antique statues that will become the horses of Saint Mark.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 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.[5][6]
- Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat, a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the Kingdom of Thessalonica.[7]
- The writings of French theologian Amalric of Bena are condemned by the University of Paris and Pope Innocent III.[8]
- Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III, after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.[9]
- Valdemar II of Denmark is recognized as king in Norway.[10]
- Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.[11][12]
- The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.[13]
- The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.[14]
- Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.[15]
- Beaulieu Abbey is founded.[16]
- 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.[17]
Births
edit- April 14 – Henry I, king of Castile (d. 1217)[18]
- Haakon IV of Norway (d. 1263)[19]
- Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1247)[20]
- Maria of Courtenay, Empress regent of Nicaea (d. 1228)
- Alice of Schaerbeek (d. 1250)[21]
Deaths
edit- January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway[19]
- January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor[22]
- February 8 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor[23]
- April 1 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Sovereign Duchess Regnant of Aquitaine, queen of France and England[24]
- August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway[25]
- 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)[31]
- date unknown – Suleiman II, Sultan of Rûm[32]
- probable – Amalric of Bena, French theologian[33]
References
edit- ^ a b Choniates, Nicetas (1984). O City of Byzantium, Annals of Niketas Choniatēs. Translated by Harry J. Magoulias. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 307–338. ISBN 0-8143-1764-2.
- ^ Savignac, David (2020). "The Medieval Russian Account of the Fourth Crusade - A New Annotated Translation". (Novgorod Chronicle)
- ^ 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. pp. 50, 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. Vol. 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. Vol. 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. p. 1208. 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Koestler-Grack, Rachel A. (2005). Eleanor of Aquitaine: Heroine of the Middle Ages. Philadelphia, PA: Infobase Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 9781438104164.
- ^ 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. Vol. 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Fujiwara Shunzei | Japanese poet and critic". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ 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.