1104

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1104 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1104
MCIV
Ab urbe condita 1857
Armenian calendar 553
ԹՎ ՇԾԳ
Assyrian calendar 5854
Balinese saka calendar 1025–1026
Bengali calendar 510–511
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 ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Water-Sheep)
1230 or 849 or 77
     to 
ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
1231 or 850 or 78
Statue of King Alfonso I (r. 1104-1134). Estatua de Alfonso I de Aragon.jpg
Statue of King Alfonso I (r. 1104–1134).

Year 1104 ( MCIV ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

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

Europe

Vietnam

By topic

Religion

Volcanology

  • Autumn The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland and devastates farms for 45 miles (some 70 km) around. [8]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 37. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 32–33. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. Malcolm Barber (2012). The Crusader States, pp. 68–69. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-11312-9.
  4. Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 38. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  5. Kennedy, Maev (July 28, 2017). "St Cuthbert's coffin features in new display at Durham Cathedral". The Guardian. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  6. 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.
  7. Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, page 115, Volume II, "Kỷ nhà Lý: Nhân Tông Hoàng Đế."
  8. "Hekla - volcano, Iceland". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  9. "Beaumont, Robert de Earl of Leicester 1104-1168". Worldcat. Retrieved April 27, 2018.