1204
Calendar year
Year 1204 (MCCIV ) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
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
Deaths
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]
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^ 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 .
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