1204

Events

• February - Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor.
• April 13 - Fourth Crusade: The Crusaders take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for 3 days.
• 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 Lascaris 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 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.
• Valdemar II, King of Denmark, is recognized as king in Norway.
• Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.
• The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal is established.
• The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.
• Philip of Swabia becomes a subject of Hermann I of Thuringia.
• Beaulieu Abbey is founded.
• Jersey enjoys self-government thanks to the division of the Duchy of Normandy.
• Pope Innocent III proclaims the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of Languedoc.

Births

• Haakon IV, King of Norway (d. 1263)
• Heinrich Raspe, Landgraf of Thuringia (d. 1247)
• Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, Ra'îs of Manûrqa (d. 1282)

Deaths

• January 1 - King Haakon III of Norway
• February 8 - Alexius IV Angelus, 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)
• 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)
• Amalric of Bena, French theologian
• William de Burgh, English politician
• Emeric of Hungary (b. 1174)
• Isaac II Angelus, Byzantine Emperor
• Suleiman II of Rum
• David Soslani, Prince of Ossetiaaf:1204

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