Editing 1204 (section)

== Events ==
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* [[January 27]]&ndash;[[January 28|28]] &ndash; [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Alexios IV Angelos]] is overthrown in a revolution.<ref name="c">{{O City of Byzantium|pages=307–338}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Alexios V Doukas]] is crowned [[Byzantine emperor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/31064036 |first=David |last=Savignac|year=2020|title=The Medieval Russian Account of the Fourth Crusade - A New Annotated Translation}} ([[Novgorod Chronicle]])</ref>[[Image:ConquestOfConstantinopleByTheCrusadersIn1204.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders]] 
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Sack of Constantinople]]: [[Crusaders]] enter [[Constantinople]] by storm and start pillaging the city as part of the [[Fourth Crusade]].<ref name="c"/> Forces of the [[Republic of Venice]] seize the antique statues that will become the [[horses of Saint Mark]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NpWFGvA5VQC&pg=PA195|title=The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople|last1=Queller|first1=Donald E.|last2=Madden|first2=Thomas F.|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=1997|isbn=9780812217131|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=195|language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Baldwin, Count of Flanders]], is crowned emperor of the [[Latin Empire]] a week after his election by the members of the [[Fourth Crusade]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOJ5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|title=The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228)|last=Tricht|first=Filip Van|publisher=BRILL|year=2011|isbn=9789004203921|series=The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400 - 1500|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=50, 127|language=en|translator-last=Peter Longbottom}}</ref>
* [[Theodore I Laskaris]] flees to [[Nicaea]] after the capture of Constantinople, and establishes the [[Empire of Nicaea]]; [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] successor states are also established in [[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]] and [[Empire of Trebizond|Trebizond]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlnPm2riK1UC&pg=PA351|title=The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228)|last=Tricht|first=Filip Van|publisher=BRILL|year=2011|isbn=9789004203235|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=351|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhDPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA121|title=A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864|last=Finlay|first=George|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1877|volume=IV: Mediaeval Greece and the empire of Trebizond, A.D. 1204-1461|pages=121|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat]], a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the [[Kingdom of Thessalonica]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Gm79HuBY0cC&pg=PA21|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571|last=Setton|first=Kenneth Meyer|publisher=American Philosophical Society|year=1976|isbn=9780871691149|series=Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society: 114|volume=I: The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=21|language=en}}</ref>
* The writings of French [[theology|theologian]] [[Amalric of Bena]] are condemned by the [[University of Paris]] and [[Pope Innocent III]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=luhgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA275|title=Violence and Non-Violence across Time: History, Religion and Culture|last=Ciucu|first=Cristina|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2018|isbn=9780429880933|editor-last=Chandra|editor-first=Sudhir|location=London and New York|pages=275|language=en|chapter=Being Truthful to 'Reality'. Grounds of non-violence in ascetic and mystical traditions.}}</ref>
* Tsar [[Kaloyan of Bulgaria|Kaloyan]] is recognized as king of [[Second Bulgarian Empire|Bulgaria]] by [[Pope Innocent III]], after the creation of the Bulgarian [[Uniate]] church.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euDAU2eb3h8C&pg=PA227|title=Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages|last=Loos|first=Milan|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|year=1974|isbn=9789024716739|location=Prague|pages=227|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Valdemar II of Denmark]] is recognized as king in [[Norway]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=133bkwvienYC&pg=PA137|title=The Growth of Scandinavian Law|last=Orfield|first=Lester B.|publisher=The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.|year=2002|isbn=9781584771807|location=Union, NJ|pages=137|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Angers]] and [[Normandy]] are captured by [[Philip II of France]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEQrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|title=Routledge Revivals: Medieval France (1995): An Encyclopedia|last1=Kibler|first1=William W.|last2=Zinn|first2=Grover A.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|isbn=9781351665667|location=New York and London|pages=33|language=en|orig-year=1995}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5DgDQAAQBAJ&q=philip+II+1204+angers+normandy&pg=PA178|title=The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, C.1170-c.1220|last=Jordan|first=Alyce A.|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2016|isbn=9781783271610|editor-last=Webster|editor-first=Paul|pages=178|language=en|chapter=The St Thomas Becket Windows at Angers and Coutances: Devotion, Subversion and the Scottish Connection|editor2-last=Gelin|editor2-first=Marie-Pierre}}</ref>
* The [[Cistercian]] [[convent]] of [[Port-Royal-des-Champs]] is established.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174|title=Everyday Life and the Sacred: Re/configuring Gender Studies in Religion|last=Berlis|first=Angela|publisher=BRILL|year=2017|isbn=9789004353794|editor-last=Berlis|editor-first=Angela|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=174|language=en|chapter=The Power of Place: Port-Royal, a Wounded Place Transfigured|editor2-last=Korte|editor2-first=Anne-Marie|editor3-last=Biezeveld|editor3-first=Kune}}</ref>
* The district of [[Cham (district)|Cham]] becomes subject to [[Bavaria]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDlSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA467|title=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|last=Heyberger|first=Joseph|publisher=Cotta|year=1863|location=Munich|pages=467|language=de}}</ref>
* [[Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia]] submits to [[Philip of Swabia]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0aGXCgAAQBAJ&q=Landgrave+Hermann+I+Philip+of+Swabia+1204&pg=PA91|title=Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity|last=Wihoda|first=Martin|publisher=BRILL|year=2015|isbn=9789004303836|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=91|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Beaulieu Abbey]] is founded.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNOIBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1208-IA31|page=1208|title=King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant|last=Church|first=Stephen|publisher=Pan Macmillan|year=2015|isbn=9780230772465|location=Basingstoke and Oxford|language=en}}</ref>
* The [[Channel Islands]] of [[Guernsey]] and [[Jersey]] decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the [[England|English]] crown, after Normandy is recaptured by [[Philip II of France]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewzACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA90|title=A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended|last1=Farran|first1=Sue|last2=Örücü|first2=Esin|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317186496|location=London and New York|pages=90|language=en}}</ref></onlyinclude>