1194

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Years: 1191 1192 1193 - 1194 - 1195 1196 1197

Decades: 1160s 1170s 1180s - 1190s - 1200s 1210s 1220s

Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century

Events

• July 5 - Emperor Guangzong of Sung China was forced to give up his throne.
• Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• November 20 - Palermo falls to Henry VI
• December 25 - Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.
• City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter.
• Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• Yellow River of China experienced a major course change. It took over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.

Births

• July 16 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (died 1253)
• December 26 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1250)

Deaths

• February 20 - King Tancred of Sicily
• May 5 - King Casimir II of Poland (born 1138)
• June 27 - King Sancho VI of Navarre
• June 28 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)
• September 27 - Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (born 1125)
• December 31 - Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (born 1157)
• Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler
• Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem
• Margaret I of Flanders
• Raymond V of Toulouse (born 1134)
• Roger III of Sicily (born 1175)
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev