1204 Totally Explained

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Years: 1201 1202 1203 - 1204 - 1205 1206 1207
Decades: 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

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 RumFurther Information

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