1247
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This article is about the year 1247.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1210s 1220s 1230s – 1240s – 1250s 1260s 1270s |
| Years: | 1244 1245 1246 – 1247 – 1248 1249 1250 |
| 1247 by topic | |
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| 1247 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1247 MCCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2000 |
| Armenian calendar | 696 ԹՎ ՈՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5997 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -597–-596 |
| 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 | 1303–1304 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1169–1170 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4348–4349 |
| Holocene calendar | 11247 |
| Iranian calendar | 625–626 |
| Islamic calendar | 644–645 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3580 |
| Minguo calendar | 665 before ROC 民前665年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1790 |
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Year 1247 (MCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- 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 exil in Andalusia and North Africa in the subsequent year.[1]
- 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.
- 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 Hamadani, 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 (b. 1168)
- November 18 – Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore (b. 1160)
