1204

Decades: 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s - 1200s - 1210s 1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s

Years: 1199 1200 1201 1202 1203 - 1204 - 1205 1206 1207 1208 1209

• February - Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor.
• April 12 - The Fourth Crusade take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for three days.
• 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.

Births

Deaths

• 1 April - Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Maimonides, Jewish philosopher
• Minamoto no Yoriie, second shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan