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

Events

By place

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.
• 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 wants to move to Ascalon, but the Italian sailors plunder the wealthy Muslim emigrants and kill many of them.
• Toghtekin, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Damascus, founds a short-lived principality in Syria (the first example of a series of Seljuk ruler dynasties).

England

• September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.

Europe

• September 28 – Alfonso I (the Battler) becomes king of Aragon and Navarre (after the death of his half-brother Peter I).
• King David IV (the Builder) of Georgia defeats 100,000 Seljuk Turks with only 1,500 warriors.
• Sultan Kilij Arslan I of the Sultanate of Rum starts a war with the Danishmendids.
• The Venetian Arsenal is founded in Venice.

By topic

Volcanology

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

Religion

• April 21 – The new basilica at Vézelay Abbey (located in northern Burgundy) in France is dedicated.

Births

• Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (d. 1168)

Deaths

• June 8 – Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus
• September 25 – Simon II, French nobleman
• October 26 – Johann I, bishop of Speyer
• Al-Mansur ibn al-Nasir, Hammadid ruler
• Danishmend Gazi, ruler of the Danishmends
• Ebontius (or Ebon), bishop of Barbastro
• Herewald of Llandaff, Welsh bishop
• Peter I, king of Aragon and Navarre
• Seraphin, archbishop of Esztergom
• Serlo, Norman cleric and abbot
• Sökmen, governor of Jerusalem
• Svend Tronkræver, Danish prince

References

1. Steven Runciman (1951). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
2. Malcolm Barber (2012). The Crusader States, pp. 68–69. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11312-9.
3. Kennedy, Maev (July 28, 2017). "St Cuthbert's coffin features in new display at Durham Cathedral". the Guardian. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
4. 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.
5. "Hekla - volcano, Iceland". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
6. "Beaumont, Robert de Earl of Leicester 1104-1168". Worldcat. Retrieved April 27, 2018.

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