1203

'Years:' 1200 1201 1202 - 1203 - 1204 1205 1206

'Decades:' 1170s 1180s 1190s - '1200s' - 1210s 1220s 1230s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events

★ April 16 - Philip II of France enters Rouen, leading to the eventual unification of Normandy and France.

★ April 8 - Congress in Bilino Polje, where Ban Kulin officially declared his allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and denounced the heresy.

★ June 23 - Fleet of the Fourth Crusade enters Bosphorus

★ July 17 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III flees from his capital into exile.

★ August 1 - Fourth Crusade elevates Alexius IV as Byzantine emperor, after the citizens of Constantinople proclaim as emperor Isaac II Angelus (Alexius IV's father).

★ William de Braose, Fourth Lord of Bramber becomes the guardian of Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, and is possibly responsible for his death.

★ Minamoto no Sanetomo becomes shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate

Births

★ Peter II of Savoy (died 1268)

Deaths

★ Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat (born 1135)

★ Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (born 1187)

★ Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd

Heads of states

★ France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)