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

Events

• July 5 – Emperor Guangzong of Sung China was forced to step down.
• November 20 – Palermo falls to Henry VI
• December 25 – Henry VI becomes king of Sicily.
• City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter.
• Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• Yellow River of China experienced a major course change. It took over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.

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)
• September 27 — Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b. 1125)
• November 15 — Margaret I of Flanders
• December 31 — Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
• Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler
• Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)
• Raymond V of Toulouse (b. 1134)
• Roger III of Sicily (b. 1175)
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev