1247

Year 1247 (MCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1220s 1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s
Years:	1244 1245 1246 1247 1248 1249 1250

1247 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1247 MCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2000
Armenian calendar	696 ԹՎ ՈՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	5997
Balinese saka calendar	1168–1169
Bengali calendar	654
Berber calendar	2197
English Regnal year	31 Hen. 3 – 32 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1791
Burmese calendar	609
Byzantine calendar	6755–6756
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3943 or 3883     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3944 or 3884
Coptic calendar	963–964
Discordian calendar	2413
Ethiopian calendar	1239–1240
Hebrew calendar	5007–5008
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1303–1304
- Shaka Samvat	1168–1169
- Kali Yuga	4347–4348
Holocene calendar	11247
Igbo calendar	247–248
Iranian calendar	625–626
Islamic calendar	644–645
Japanese calendar	Kangen 5 / Hōji 1 (宝治元年)
Javanese calendar	1156–1157
Julian calendar	1247 MCCXLVII
Korean calendar	3580
Minguo calendar	665 before ROC 民前665年
Nanakshahi calendar	−221
Thai solar calendar	1789–1790
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1373 or 992 or 220     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1374 or 993 or 221

Events

• July 2 – A document issued by King Béla IV of Hungary, granting territories to the Knights Hospitaller in the Banate of Severin and Cumania, makes an early mention of Litovoi and other Vlach/Romanian local rulers, in Wallachia and Transylvania.
• December 1 – A rebellion arises among the Muslim subjects of the Crown of Aragon, in the region of Valencia. As a punishment, the king issues an order of expulsion of the Muslims from his realm, leading numerous people into exile in Andalusia and North Africa, in the subsequent year.[1]

Date unknown

• Kabaka Tembo reigned over the Buganda Kingdom between 1247 and 1277 in present day Uganda.
• Shams Tabrizi disappears, resulting in Jalal Uddin Rumi writing 30,000 verses of poetry about his disappearance.
• Romford, London, England is chartered as a market town.
• The future Bethlem Royal Hospital, Bedlam, is founded in London.
• The Thuringian War of Succession begins.
• Qin Jiushao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.
• Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
• Nijmegen becomes part of Gelderland.
• Afonso III succeeds Sancho II, as King of Portugal.
• Song Ci publishes the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, a book considered to be the first monographic work on forensic medicine.

Births

• Angelo da Clareno, Italian founder of Fraticelli (d. 1337)
• John II, Count of Holland and Hainaut (d. 1304)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Persian writer and historian (approximate date) (d. 1318)
• Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher
• Zhang San Feng, Chinese Taoist

Deaths

• February 12 – Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg, ruler (b. 1185)
• February 16 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
• Tomoe Gozen, late Twelfth Century Japanese samurai warrior (b. 1157)
• William de Ferrers (b. 1168)

References

1. de Epalza, Miguel (1999). Negotiating cultures: bilingual surrender treaties in Muslim-Crusader Spain under James the Conqueror. Brill. p. 108. ISBN 90-04-11244-8.