1204

This page relates to the year 1204 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Temüjin overcomes Ong-khan of the Kereit Toghril and its son Nilka-Sengum. The tribe of Kereit is integrated into the Mongolian tribes.
Fall: Temüjin walk against the Naïmans at which took refuge its adversaries (Tayang, chief of the clan of Djadjirat, Djamuka and the Merkit Toktoa-beki). It overcomes them in the Altaï.
the Ghurides seize Nadya, the capital of the dynasty Sena with the Bengal.

Conflit enters the Ghurides and the Shah of the Khârezm for the possession of Harat.
the diversion of the Fourth crusade on Constantinople deprives the Francs of Holy Land of the reinforcements which would have enabled them to try a new operation against Jerusalem. They are constrained to ask Al-Adel the renewal of the truce for six years.
Retrocession of Jaffa by the Moslems.

the town of Amsterdam is founded in Holland.
Pierre II of Aragon convenes with Carcassonne a first contradictory conference between Catholique S and Hérétique S and a second between Catholique S and of Vaud.

Strong dryness between February and April then canicular temperatures during the summer.
February 10th: Ébrard II, bishop of Uzès, sign with its predecessor, the charter of foundation of the Chartreuse de Valbonne.
March 6th: Catch of Castle-Strapping man by Philippe Auguste and Mathieu II of Montmorency.
May 21st: Catch of Caen by Philippe Auguste.

Guillaume Quarel is named Viscount of Caen by Philippe-Auguste after the rendering of the city

June 1st: Capitulation of the town of Rouen which falls to the hands from the King de France. The Normandy enters the bosom of French monarchy.
June 15th: Pierre II of Aragon wife Marie of Montpellier. He recognizes himself vassal of the pope. Montpellier passes to the house of Aragon (fine in 1349).

Philippe Auguste grants charters, establishments and privileges with the Normandy conquered.
the building work of the Mount-Saint-Michel starts.
Foundation of the abbey Port-Royal-of-Fields.

27 - January 28th: Alexis IV Angel, Byzantine Emperor, is imprisoned with his/her father Isaac II Angel in the night by Alexis V Doukas Murzuphle. Died of Isaac II Angel. Alexis V takes again the capacity.
February 8th: Alexis IV Angel is strangled in its prison.
Mars: Partitio Romanie . A treaty concluded between the doge Enrico Dandolo and the crusaders decides by advance the division of the Byzantine Empire.
April 9th: Attack of crossed on Constantinople.
April 12th: Alexis V flees in Thrace.
April 13rd - April 15th: Bag of Constantinople by the Fourth crusade. The Byzantine Empire is divided: a quarter for the new emperor, three quarters for Venice and knights.

Theodore Lascaris flees in minor Asia and founds the Empire of Nicée (Bithynie, Lydie, Phrygie, Archipel (fine in 1222).

May 9th: Baudouin IX of Flanders is elected emperor of the East.
May 16th: Foundation of the Latin Empire of the East. Baudoin Ier is crowned emperor.
June 23rd: Dismemberment of the Empire:

the Greek Empire of Trébizonde is founded by Alexis Comnène, small son of Andronic Ier Comnène taken refuge in Trébizonde.
Venice founds a maritime empire in Crete, Messénie, Black Sea and seizes the island of Samothrace.
the Black Sea is opened with the Western trade.
Constantinople, plundered and burned, is deserted by its population which will return only in 1261.

Kalojan of Bulgaria receives its crown of a legate of Innocent III. Bulgaria recognizes Roman supremacy.

Decline of Kiev after the bag of Constantinople by the crusaders. Migration of part of the inhabitants of Kiev towards north. Novgorod, thus reinforced, becomes a principality with the flourishing trade turned towards the the Baltic, seat at the 13th century of a large counter of the Hanseatic League.

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