1203

This page relates to the year 1203 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

Europe

France

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
    • Diplomatic mission in Aquitanian of Diego d' Osma accompanied by Dominique de Guzman, Castilian canon, who notes the misdeeds of the catharism.

    • Pierre de Castelnau and Raoul de Fontfroide, papal legates Innocent III leave with an aim of convincing the count de Toulouse, Raymond VI, of carrying out a crusade on its grounds.
    • Philippe Auguste seizes Saumur.

Russia

  • Kiev is ransacked by the combined Coumans Riourik Rostislavitch.

Worsen Byzantine

  • Spring: Catch of Corfou by the Crusaders.
  • June 24th: Sit of Constantinople.
  • July 17th: The Crusaders take Constantinople.
  • : The Vénitiens restore the emperor Isaac II Angel and his/her son Alexis IV Angel the Young person (born in 1182), combined Crusaders. The emperor Alexis III Angel flees.
    • Isaac II and Alexis IV will perish six months strangled later by Alexis V Doukas, said Murzuphle , carried on the throne by an anti-franque riot. Latin are driven out city and Murzuphle calls upon the Sultan of Rum, Suleiman, which cannot intervene. It will be carried out in November 1204 by Latin for regicide.

Economy & company

  • the Italians hold the economy of the Byzantine Empire in supervision: Pisa and Genoa concentrates their activities on Constantinople and some counters of Greece (Almyros, Thessalonique, Thèbes) and continues to pay the 4% of customs duties. Venice east everywhere: Épire, Macedonia, Greece, Thessalie, Thrace, Minor Asia, Ionian islands and Egéennes. Only the Black Sea escapes to him. Three times per annum, of the convoys of galées under escort, the mudae , leave Venice for the Empire.

Art & culture

  • two guards of the southern door of the large temple of Tōdai-ji of the sculptor Unkei (Japan). These monumental figures are characterized by a great expressivity of the faces and postures.

Births in 1203

Death in 1203

  • Pierre of Blois, poet and diplomat French.

  • Arthur I {{er}}, duke of Brittany and claiming with the throne of England.
  • Nîzamî, Persan poet (born in 1141).

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