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

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Events

  • April 21 – New basilica at Vézelay Abbey in France dedicated.
  • May 7 – Battle of Harran: Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks; Tancred becomes regent.
  • September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.
  • The Venice Arsenal is founded in Venice.
  • Alfonso I of Aragon becomes King of Aragon and Navarre.
  • Historian Guibert of Nogent becomes abbot of Notre Dame de Nogent.
  • Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Acre.
  • Georgians under king David IV (the builder) defeat 100 000 Seljuks with only 1,500 warriors.
  • Sultan Kilij Arslan I of Sultanate of Rum starts a war with the Danishmends.
  • Tuğtekin, atabeg of Damascus founds a short lived principality in Syria. First example of a series of Seljukid atabeg dynasties.
  • The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland, destroying settlements

    • Births

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

    • Deaths

  • Peter I of Aragon, King of Aragon and Navarre
  • Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus
  • Serlo, Norman Abbot of Gloucester in England

    • References

    1104 Wikipedia
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