1104
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| 1104 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1104 MCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1857 |
| Armenian calendar | 553 ԹՎ ՇԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5854 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1025–1026 |
| Bengali calendar | 511 |
| Berber calendar | 2054 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Hen. 1 – 5 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1648 |
| Burmese calendar | 466 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6612–6613 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3801 or 3594 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3802 or 3595 |
| Coptic calendar | 820–821 |
| Discordian calendar | 2270 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1096–1097 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4864–4865 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1160–1161 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1025–1026 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4204–4205 |
| Holocene calendar | 11104 |
| Igbo calendar | 104–105 |
| Iranian calendar | 482–483 |
| Islamic calendar | 497–498 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōwa 6 / Chōji 1 (長治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1009–1010 |
| Julian calendar | 1104 MCIV |
| Korean calendar | 3437 |
| Minguo calendar | 808 before ROC 民前808年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −364 |
| Seleucid era | 1415/1416 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1646–1647 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1230 or 849 or 77 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1231 or 850 or 78 |
Year 1104 (MCIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Summer – The Byzantines re-occupy the Cilician cities of Tarsus, Adana and Mamistra. A naval squadron, under Admiral Cantacuzenus, pursues in Cypriot waters a Genoese raiding fleet, and sails on to Latakia, where they capture the harbour and the lower city. Bohemond I reinforces the garrison in the citadel.[1]
Levant
- Spring – The Crusaders, led by Bohemond I, re-invade the territory of Aleppo, and try to capture the town of Kafar Latha. The attack fails, owing to the resistance of the local Banu tribe. Meanwhile, Joscelin of Courtenay cuts the communications between Aleppo and the Euphrates.[2]
- May 7 – Battle of Harran: The Crusaders under Baldwin II are defeated by the Seljuk Turks. Baldwin and Joscelin of Courtenay are taken prisoner. Tancred (nephew of Bohemond I) becomes regent of Edessa. The defeat at Harran marks a key turning point of Crusader expansion.
- May 26 – King Baldwin I captures Acre, the port is besieged from April, and blockaded by the Genoese and Pisan fleet. Baldwin promises a free passage to those who want to move to Ascalon, but the Italian sailors plunder the wealthy Muslim emigrants and kill many of them.[3]
- Autumn – Bohemond I departs to Italy for reinforcements. He takes with him gold and silver, and precious stuff to raise an army against Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Tancred becomes co-ruler over Antioch – and appoints his brother-in-law, Richard of Salerno, as his deputy.[4]
- Toghtekin, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Damascus, founds a short-lived principality in Syria (the first example of a series of Seljuk-ruled dynasties).
England
- September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.[5]
Europe
- September 28 – Alfonso I becomes king of Aragon and Navarre (after the death of his half-brother Peter I).
- King David IV of Georgia defeats 100,000 Seljuk Turks with only 1,500 warriors (approximate date).[citation needed]
- Sultan Kilij Arslan I of the Sultanate of Rum starts a war with the Danishmendids.
- The Venetian Arsenal is founded in Venice.[6]
By topic
Religion
- April 21 – The new basilica at Vézelay Abbey (located in northern Burgundy in France) is dedicated.
Volcanology
- Autumn – The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland and devastates farms for 45 miles (some 70 km) around.[7]
Births
- Euphrosyne of Polotsk, Kievan princess (d. 1167)
- Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, Japanese waka poet (d. 1177)
- Gens du Beaucet, French hermit and saint (d. 1127)
- Ibn Zafar al Siqilli, Arab-Sicilian politician (d. 1170)
- Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (d. 1168)[8]
- Vladimir Volodarevich, Galician prince (d. 1152)
- Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester (d. 1166)
Deaths
- June 8 – Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus
- September 25 – Simon II, French nobleman
- October 26 – Johann I, bishop of Speyer
- Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir, Hammadid ruler
- Danishmend Gazi, ruler of the Danishmends
- Ebontius, bishop of Barbastro
- Herewald of Llandaff, Welsh bishop
- Peter I, king of Aragon and Navarre
- Seraphin, archbishop of Esztergom
- Serlo, Norman cleric and abbot
- Sökmen, governor of Jerusalem
- Svend Tronkræver, Danish prince
References
- ^ Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 37. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Malcolm Barber (2012). The Crusader States, pp. 68–69. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11312-9.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 38. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Kennedy, Maev (July 28, 2017). "St Cuthbert's coffin features in new display at Durham Cathedral". The Guardian. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ Squires, Nick (2018). "Italian navy hires out Venice's feted Arsenale for conventions to make up for government cuts". The Telegraph. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ "Hekla - volcano, Iceland". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ "Beaumont, Robert de Earl of Leicester 1104-1168". Worldcat. Retrieved April 27, 2018.