1237
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This article is about the year 1237.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1200s 1210s 1220s – 1230s – 1240s 1250s 1260s |
| Years: | 1234 1235 1236 – 1237 – 1238 1239 1240 |
| 1237 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
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| 1237 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1237 MCCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1990 |
| Armenian calendar | 686 ԹՎ ՈՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5987 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -607–-606 |
| Bengali calendar | 644 |
| Berber calendar | 2187 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Hen. 3 – 22 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1781 |
| Burmese calendar | 599 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6745–6746 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年十二月初三日 (3873/3933-12-3) — to —
丁酉年十二月十三日(3874/3934-12-13) |
| Coptic calendar | 953–954 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1229–1230 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4997–4998 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1293–1294 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1159–1160 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4338–4339 |
| Holocene calendar | 11237 |
| Iranian calendar | 615–616 |
| Islamic calendar | 634–635 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1237 MCCXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3570 |
| Minguo calendar | 675 before ROC 民前675年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1780 |
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Year 1237 (MCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- Thomas II of Savoy becomes count of Flanders.
- Elbląg, Poland is founded.
- After turning aside south for 15 years to invade the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Persia — united now under Batu Khan with representatives of all 4 khanates leading 150,000 Mongol, Turkish and Persian troops into Europe, resume the European invasion with the resumption of Mongol invasion of Rus' foreshadowed by.
- December 21 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Sack of Ryazan.
- Gualdo Tadino, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
- The County of Artois is founded in France.
- Baldwin II becomes Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
- Conrad IV of Germany becomes King of Germany.
- The Livonian Brothers of the Sword unite with the Teutonic Knights.
- Battle of Cortenuova: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Lombard League.
- A major fire destroys some 30,000 dwellings in the Chinese capital city of Hangzhou.
- England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
[edit] Births
- Bohemond VI of Antioch, ruler of the principality of Antioch
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 – Joan, Lady of Wales
- April 15 – Richard Poore, English ecclesiastic
- June 6 – John de Scotia, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
- John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople (b. c. 1148)
- Pons de Capduelh, French troubadour
