Editing 1204

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{{C13 year in topic}}Year '''1204''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCCIV]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== 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>

== Births ==
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Henry I of Castile|Henry I]], king of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] (d. [[1217]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0k7AQAAIAAJ&q=Henry+I+of+Castile+born&pg=PA1166|title=Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology|last=Thomas|first=Joseph|publisher=J.B. Lippincott and Company|year=1870|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=1166|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Haakon IV of Norway]] (d. [[1263]])<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEsM1ibpcJQC&q=haakon+IV+1204&pg=PA218|title=Kings, Rulers, and Statesmen|last1=Wise|first1=Leonard F.|last2=Hansen|first2=Mark Hillary|last3=Egan|first3=E. W.|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|year=2005|isbn=9781402725920|location=New York|pages=218|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia]] (d. [[1247]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpYz-JIpjR8C&q=1204+Henry+Raspe&pg=PA1078|title=Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 Vol. Set)|publisher=BRILL|year=2012|isbn=9789004185555|editor-last=Martin|editor-first=Therese|series=Visualizing the Middle Ages|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=1078|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Maria of Courtenay]], Empress regent of Nicaea (d. [[1228]])
* [[Alice of Schaerbeek]] (d. [[1250]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fj19CAAAQBAJ&q=Alice+of+Schaerbeek+1204&pg=PA366|title=Historical Dictionary of Brussels|last=State|first=Paul F.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2015|isbn=9780810879218|location=Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth|pages=30|language=en}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
* [[January 1]] &ndash; King [[Haakon III of Norway]]<ref name=":2" />
* [[January]] &ndash; [[Isaac II Angelos]], [[Byzantine emperor]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OZOSBwAAQBAJ&q=isaac+II+angelos+1204&pg=PA216|title=Fighting Emperors of Byzantium|last=Carr|first=John|publisher=Pen and Sword|year=2015|isbn=9781473856400|location=Barnsley|pages=269|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Alexios IV Angelos]], [[Byzantine emperor]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_mazcfdpVIC&q=1204+Alexios+V&pg=PA316|title=Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204|last=Saint-Guillain|first=Guillaume|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|year=2011|isbn=9781409410980|editor-last=Herrin|editor-first=Judith|location=Surrey and Burlington, VT|pages=274|language=en|chapter=Tales of San Marco: Venetian Historiography and Thirteenth-century Byzantine Prosopography|editor2-last=Saint-Guillain|editor2-first=Guillaume}}</ref>
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], Sovereign Duchess Regnant of Aquitaine, queen of France and England<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Q0e6QZCgOAC&q=1204+Eleanor+of+aquitaine&pg=PA138|title=Eleanor of Aquitaine: Heroine of the Middle Ages|last=Koestler-Grack|first=Rachel A.|publisher=Infobase Publishing|year=2005|isbn=9781438104164|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=138|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] &ndash; King [[Guttorm of Norway]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9uKAXxNj80C&q=1204+guttorm+norway&pg=PA2|title=Icelandic Sagas and Other Historical Documents Relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen of the British Isles|last=Þórðarson|first=Sturla|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=9781108052498|volume=4: The Saga of Hacon, and a Fragment of the Saga of Magnus, with Appendices|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=2|language=en|translator-last=George Webbe Dasent|chapter=The Saga of Hacon, Hacon's Son}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Minamoto no Yoriie]], Japanese [[List of shōguns|shōgun]] (b. [[1182]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmYYAgAAQBAJ&q=1204+Minamoto+no+Yoriie&pg=PA257|title=Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945|last=Henshall|first=Kenneth|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2013|isbn=9780810878723|location=Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth|pages=257|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] or [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Emeric, King of Hungary]] (b. [[1174]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNEmDAAAQBAJ&q=1204+Emeric%2C+King+of+Hungary&pg=PT57|title=Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective: From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus|last1=Jaritz|first1=Gerhard|last2=Szende|first2=Katalin|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317212249|location=London and New York|language=en}}</ref>
* c. [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester]], English nobleman<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iygmDwAAQBAJ&q=1204+Robert+de+Beaumont+Leicester&pg=PT1066|title=England under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075-1225|last=Bartlett|first=Robert|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780192547378|location=Oxford and New York|language=en|orig-year=2000}}</ref>
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Ban Kulin]], ruler of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] (b. [[1163]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qPkkDwAAQBAJ&q=1204+Ban+Kulin&pg=PA260|title=Bosnia & Herzegovina 5|last=Clancy|first=Tim|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|year=2017|isbn=9781784770181|location=Chalfont St Peter and Guilford|pages=260|language=en|orig-year=2004}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] (or [[December 13]]) &ndash; [[Maimonides]], Spanish [[rabbi]] and [[philosopher]] (b. [[1135]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UncLjJggeQgC&q=1204+Maimonides&pg=PR15|title=Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed|last=Seeskin|first=Kenneth|publisher=Behrman House, Inc|year=1991|isbn=9780874415094|location=Millburn, NJ|pages=xv|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Fujiwara no Shunzei]], Japanese ''[[Waka (poetry)|waka]]'' poet (b. 1114)<ref>{{cite web |title=Fujiwara Shunzei {{!}} Japanese poet and critic |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fujiwara-Shunzei |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=11 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Suleiman II (Rûm)|Suleiman II]], Sultan of Rûm<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPC1HhQUoksC&q=1204+Suleiman+II+Rum&pg=PA394|title=Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine XI|last=Laale|first=Hans Willer|publisher=WestBow Press|year=2011|isbn=9781449716189|location=Bloomington, IN|pages=394|language=en}}</ref>
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Amalric of Bena]], French [[theologian]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LJ3DAAAQBAJ&q=1204+Amalric+of+Bena&pg=PT101|title=Philosophy of One on the Many|last=Eleyot|first=Lawrence|publisher=AuthorHouse|year=2016|isbn=9781524635817|location=Bloomington, IN|language=en}}</ref>

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