1104

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political events

Acre surrenders to Jerusalem's Baldwin I, a Norman army is badly beaten on the River Balikh near Rakka while trying to take Harran, but Byblus falls to Raymond IV, comte de Toulouse, who lays siege to Tripoli.

Bohemond of Otranto appears at Epirus with a huge army that he has raised in Italy to challenge the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus, who conquers the towns of Cilicia.

religion

Regents for Norway's child king Olaf IV Magnusson have him baptized and make Christianity the country's official religion, but some of his successors will be pagans. The first archbishop of Lund is appointed, making Scandinavia a church province separate from Hamburg.

environment

Iceland's Mount Hekla volcano erupts and devastates farms for 45 miles around. The volcano will have 14 eruptions in the next 850 years (see 1154).

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Construction

The earliest pointed arch, or ogive, on a cathedral is used in the Romanesque Cathedral of Durham. See also 561 Construction; 1122 Construction. (See essay.)

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1070s  1080s  1090s  – 1100s –  1110s  1120s  1130s
Years:	1101 1102 1103 – 1104 – 1105 1106 1107

1104 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1104 in poetry v • d • e

1104 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1104 MCIV
Ab urbe condita	1857
Armenian calendar	553 ԹՎ ՇԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-740 – -739
Berber calendar	2054
Buddhist calendar	1648
Burmese calendar	466
Byzantine calendar	6612 – 6613
Chinese calendar	癸未年十二月初二日 (3740/3800-12-2) — to — 甲申年十二月十三日 (3741/3801-12-13)
Coptic calendar	820 – 821
Ethiopian calendar	1096 – 1097
Hebrew calendar	4864 – 4865
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1159 – 1160
- Shaka Samvat	1026 – 1027
- Kali Yuga	4205 – 4206
Holocene calendar	11104
Iranian calendar	482 – 483
Islamic calendar	497 – 498
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3437
Thai solar calendar	1647
v • d • e

Events

• 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.
• Battle of Harran: Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks; Tancred becomes regent.
• Sultan Kilij Arslan I of Seljuks of Turkey 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

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