1194

1194 (MCXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1194th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 194th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 12th century, and the 5th year of the 1190s decade. As of the start of 1194, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1194 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1194 MCXCIV
Ab urbe condita	1947
Armenian calendar	643 ԹՎ ՈԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	5944
Balinese saka calendar	1115–1116
Bengali calendar	601
Berber calendar	2144
English Regnal year	5 Ric. 1 – 6 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar	1738
Burmese calendar	556
Byzantine calendar	6702–6703
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3890 or 3830     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3891 or 3831
Coptic calendar	910–911
Discordian calendar	2360
Ethiopian calendar	1186–1187
Hebrew calendar	4954–4955
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1250–1251
- Shaka Samvat	1115–1116
- Kali Yuga	4294–4295
Holocene calendar	11194
Igbo calendar	194–195
Iranian calendar	572–573
Islamic calendar	590–591
Japanese calendar	Kenkyū 5 (建久５年)
Javanese calendar	1101–1102
Julian calendar	1194 MCXCIV
Korean calendar	3527
Minguo calendar	718 before ROC 民前718年
Nanakshahi calendar	−274
Seleucid era	1505/1506 AG
Thai solar calendar	1736–1737
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 1320 or 939 or 167     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 1321 or 940 or 168

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