1194

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