1194
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1160s 1170s 1180s – 1190s – 1200s 1210s 1220s |
| Years: | 1191 1192 1193 – 1194 – 1195 1196 1197 |
| 1194 by topic | |
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| 1194 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1194 MCXCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1947 |
| Armenian calendar | 643 ԹՎ ՈԽԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5944 |
| Bengali calendar | 601 |
| Berber calendar | 2144 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Ric. 1 – 6 Ric. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1738 |
| Burmese calendar | 556 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6702–6703 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3890 or 3830 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3891 or 3831 |
| Coptic calendar | 910–911 |
| Discordian calendar | 2360 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1186–1187 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4954–4955 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1250–1251 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1116–1117 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4295–4296 |
| Holocene calendar | 11194 |
| Igbo calendar | 194–195 |
| Iranian calendar | 572–573 |
| Islamic calendar | 590–591 |
| Japanese calendar | Kenkyū 5 (建久５年) |
| Julian calendar | 1194 MCXCIV |
| Korean calendar | 3527 |
| Minguo calendar | 718 before ROC 民前718年 |
| Seleucid era | 1505/1506 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1736–1737 |
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Year 1194 (MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- February 4 – King Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
- c. February 10 – Henry Marshal is nominated Bishop of Exeter in England.
- March 10 – Sultan Toghrul III is defeated and killed in battle with Ala ad-Din Tekish near Rey in Persia, ending the Seljuq dynasty of Hamedan; the Great Seljuq Empire passes to the Khwarazmian dynasty.[1]
- March 12–28 – King Richard returns to England and besieges Nottingham Castle to reclaim it from his brother John.[2]
- April 17 – Second coronation of Richard I at Winchester.[3]
- May 2 – The port of Portsmouth in England is granted a Royal Charter.
- May 12 – After settling affairs in England, Richard I leaves for Barfleur in Normandy to reclaim lands lost to Philip II of France.[2]
- June 10 – A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.[4]
- July 3 – Battle of Fréteval: Richard I of England reconquers his French fiefdoms from Philip II.[2]
- July 5 – Emperor Guangzong of Song China is forced to give up his throne.
- November 20 – Palermo in Sicily falls to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
- December 25 – Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.
- The Danes attack Estonia.
- Ordinance of the Jewry in England: Strict records are to be kept of financial transactions by Jews in England for taxation purposes.
- The Yellow River of China experiences a major course change, taking over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.[5]
- Beginning of a three-year famine in Northern France due to catastrophic rains and hail storms. [6]
- Hunac Ceel drives the Itza out of Chichen Itza, forcing them to start the Itza Kingdom on Lake Peten Itza.
Births
- July 16 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
- December 26 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
Deaths
- February 20 – King Tancred of Sicily
- May 5 – King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
- June 27 – King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. c. 1133)
- June 28 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)
- July 18 – Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)
- September 27 – Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b. 1125)
- November 15 – Margaret I of Flanders
- December – Raymond V of Toulouse (b. 1134)
- December 31 – Duke Leopold V of Austria (at a tournament) (b. 1157)
- Basil Vatatzes, Byzantine general
- Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler
- Sviatoslav III of Kiev
References
- ↑ Grousset, René (1970). The Empire of the Steppes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 129–131. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 73–75. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
- ↑ Grousset, René (1959). The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 303.
- ↑ Baldwin, John (2006). Paris 1200. Paris: Aubier. p. 53.