1204, year

Year 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.


 * January – Four-year-old Guttorm is proclaimed King of Norway; his "reign" ends with his death a few months later.


 * January 28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.


 * February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is proclaimed Byzantine emperor.


 * Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders


 * April 13 – Fourth Crusade: The Crusaders take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for 3 days. Forces of the Republic of Venice seize the antique statues that will become the horses of Saint Mark.


 * 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 Laskaris 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 I, Marquess 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.


 * Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III, after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.


 * Valdemar II of Denmark is recognized as king in Norway.


 * Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.


 * The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.


 * The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.


 * Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.

The Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the English crown, after Normandy is recaptured by Philip II of France.
 * Beaulieu Abbey is founded.

Galactic events

 * Klack forces are pushed back past the Upward / Coreward horizon but only after the Ult and the Vrill join the conflict. The battle at Kurthu system  is considered one of the bloodiest space battles in collective memory up to that day.


 * The Red Xunx face  disaster, as the Old queen who defeated the New Queen can't no longer produce eggs.


 * Ferons settle on Galgog, and make it their new home calling it Fero Home.


 * Saresii do not have a space fleet and Kermac agression backed by Nogoll and other Thrall species make Kermac victory seem certain.


 * However, the Ult intervene on Saresii behalf and reverse Kermac advances with a venegance.Ult leadership declares war against the Kermac . This war and subsequent animosity limits Kermac expansion into the Upward sector.