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Year 1204 (MCCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[link]

• February – Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor.
• April 13 – Fourth Crusade: The Crusaders take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for 3 days.
• May 16 – Baldwin, Count of Flanders is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire a week after his election by the members of the Fourth Crusade.
• Theodore I Lascaris flees to Nicaea after the capture of Constantinople, and establishes the Empire of Nicaea; Byzantine successor states are also established in Epirus and Trebizond.
• Boniface of Montferrat, a leader of the Fourth Crusade, founds the Kingdom of Thessalonica.
• The writings of French theologian Amalric of Bena are condemned by the University of Paris and Pope Innocent III.
• Tsar Kaloyan is recognized as king of Bulgaria by Pope Innocent III after the creation of the Bulgarian Uniate church.
• Valdemar II, King of Denmark, is recognized as king in Norway.
• Angers and Normandy are captured by Philip II of France.
• The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.
• The district of Cham becomes subject to Bavaria.
• Hermann I of Thuringia submits to Philip of Swabia.
• Beaulieu Abbey is founded.
• Guernsey and Jersey decide, after a plebiscite of wealthy land owners, to remain with the English crown after Normandy was recaptured by Philip II of France.

Births[link]

• Haakon IV, King of Norway (d. 1263)
• Heinrich Raspe, Landgraf of Thuringia (d. 1247)
• Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, Ra'îs of Manûrqa (d. 1282)

Deaths[link]

• January 1 – King Haakon III of Norway
• February 8 – Alexius IV Angelus, Byzantine Emperor
• April 1 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England
• August 11 – King Guttorm of Norway
• August 14 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
• October 21 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
• December 13 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
• Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (b. 1163)
• Amalric of Bena, French theologian
• William de Burgh, English politician
• Emeric of Hungary (b. 1174)
• Isaac II Angelus, Byzantine Emperor
• Suleiman II of Rum

References[link]

Tarak Mehta (born 1930) is an Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright. best known for the column Duniya Na Undha Chasma in Gujarati Language. He has translated and adapted several comedies into Gujarati, and has been well-known figure in the Gujarati theatre.^[1]

The humorous weekly column first appeared in Chitralekha in March 1971 and ever since has been looking at contemporary issues from a different perspective. He has published 80 books, over the years, three books are based on the columns he wrote in Gujarati newspaper, Divya Bhaskar while rest were compiled from the stories in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah.^[2]

In 2008 SAB TV, a popular entertainment channel in India, started a show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah that is based on his column.,^[3] and soon it became the flagship show of the channel.^[4]

Personal life[link]

He stays in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where he moved in year 2000, with second wife, Indu of over 30 years, His first wife, Ila who later married Manohar Doshi, (died 2006), also stayed in the same apartment building. He has daughter from his first marriage, Ishani, who stays in US, and has two children, Kushan and Shaili.^[2][5]

Bibliography[link]

• Duniya ne Oondha Chashmah
• Aa Duniya Panjarapole
• Action Reply ½
• Albelun America Vanthelun America
• Bagicha Ni Hadvi Havama
• Bahero Hase Be Vay...!
• Champaklal Tapuni Jugalbandhi
• Betaj Batali Baj Popatlal Taraj
• Taarak mehta ka oolta chashmah

References[link]

• "Tarak Mehta". The Statesman. http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=26&id=245516&usrsess=1. Retrieved 2009-04-20. 
• http://www.glamsham.com/dramas/features/tarak_mehta.pdf - contains a lot of information about Tarak Mehta

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