1247
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| Years: 1244 1245 1246 - 1247 - 1248 1249 1250 |
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| Decades: 1210s 1220s 1230s - 1240s - 1250s 1260s 1270s |
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| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
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| 1247 by topic | |
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| 1247 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1247 MCCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2000 |
| Armenian calendar | 696 ԹՎ ՈՂԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -597 – -596 |
| Berber calendar | 2197 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1791 |
| Burmese calendar | 609 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6755 – 6756 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年十一月廿三日 (3883/3943-11-23) — to —
丁未年十二月初三日(3884/3944-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 963 – 964 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1239 – 1240 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5007 – 5008 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1302 – 1303 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1169 – 1170 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4348 – 4349 |
| Holocene calendar | 11247 |
| Iranian calendar | 625 – 626 |
| Islamic calendar | 644 – 645 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3580 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1790 |
[edit] Events
- Shams ad-Din disappears, resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
- Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.
- Bedlam becomes part of London.
- The Thuringian War of Succession begins.
- Qin Jiushao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.
- Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.
- Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
- Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.
- The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.
- Afonso III succeeds Sancho II as King of Portugal.
- Saint Louis massacres the last remaining Catharists at Montségur.
- Song Ci publishes the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, a book considered to be the first monographic work on forensic medicine.
[edit] Births
- Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (d. 1271)
- Angelo da Clareno, founder of Fraticelli (d. 1337)
- Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (d. 1255)
- John II, Count of Hainaut (d. 1304)
- Rashid al-Din, Persian writer and historian (approximate date) (d. 1318)
- Zhang Sanfeng, Chinese Taoist priest
- Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
- William de Ferrers
