1194

This article is about the year 1194.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1191 1192 1193 – 1194 – 1195 1196 1197

1194 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1194 in poetry

1194 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1194 MCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	1947
Armenian calendar	643 ԹՎ ՈԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	5944
Bengali calendar	601
Berber calendar	2144
English Regnal year	5 Ric. 1 – 6 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar	1738
Burmese calendar	556
Byzantine calendar	6702–6703
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3890 or 3830     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3891 or 3831
Coptic calendar	910–911
Discordian calendar	2360
Ethiopian calendar	1186–1187
Hebrew calendar	4954–4955
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1250–1251
- Shaka Samvat	1116–1117
- Kali Yuga	4295–4296
Holocene calendar	11194
Igbo calendar	194–195
Iranian calendar	572–573
Islamic calendar	590–591
Japanese calendar	Kenkyū 5 (建久５年)
Julian calendar	1194 MCXCIV
Korean calendar	3527
Minguo calendar	718 before ROC 民前718年
Seleucid era	1505/1506 AG
Thai solar calendar	1736–1737

Year 1194 (MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• February 4 – King Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
• c. February 10 – Henry Marshal is nominated Bishop of Exeter in England.
• March 10 – Sultan Toghrul III is defeated and killed in battle with Ala ad-Din Tekish near Rey in Persia, ending the Seljuq dynasty of Hamedan; the Great Seljuq Empire passes to the Khwarazmian dynasty.
• March 12–28 – King Richard returns to England and besieges Nottingham Castle to reclaim it from his brother John.
• April 17 – Second coronation of Richard I at Winchester.
• May 2 – The port of Portsmouth in England is granted a Royal Charter.
• May 12 – After settling affairs in England, Richard I leaves for Barfleur in Normandy to reclaim lands lost to Philip II of France.
• June 10 – A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.
• July 3 – Battle of Fréteval: Richard I of England reconquers his French fiefdoms from Philip II.
• July 5 – Emperor Guangzong of Song China is forced to give up his throne.
• November 20 – Palermo in Sicily falls to Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
• December 25 – Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.
• The Danes attack Estonia.
• Ordinance of the Jewry in England: Strict records are to be kept of financial transactions by Jews in England for taxation purposes.
• The Yellow River of China experiences a major course change, taking over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.
• Beginning of a three-year famine in Northern France due to catastrophic rains and hail storms.
• Hunac Ceel drives the Itza out of Chichen Itza, forcing them to start the Itza Kingdom on Lake Peten Itza.

Births

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

Deaths

• February 20 – King Tancred of Sicily
• May 5 – King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
• June 27 – King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. c. 1133)
• June 28 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)
• July 18 – Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)
• September 27 – Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b. 1125)
• November 15 – Margaret I of Flanders
• December – Raymond V of Toulouse (b. 1134)
• December 31 – Duke Leopold V of Austria (at a tournament) (b. 1157)
• Basil Vatatzes, Byzantine general
• Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev