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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.
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.
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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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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This article is about the year 1104.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 | |
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| 1104 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1104 MCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1857 |
| Armenian calendar | 553 ԹՎ ՇԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5854 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -740–-739 |
| Bengali calendar | 511 |
| Berber calendar | 2054 |
| English Regnal year | 4 Hen. 1 – 5 Hen. 1 |
| 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 | 1160–1161 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1026–1027 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4205–4206 |
| Holocene calendar | 11104 |
| Iranian calendar | 482–483 |
| Islamic calendar | 497–498 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3437 |
| Minguo calendar | 808 before ROC 民前808年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1647 |
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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
- 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 Rüm 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
Deaths
- Peter I of Aragon, King of Aragon and Navarre
- Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus
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