1247

This article is about the year 1247. For the number, see 1247 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1247 in poetry

1247 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1247 MCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2000
Armenian calendar	696 ԹՎ ՈՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	5997
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	1169–1170
- Kali Yuga	4348–4349
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)
Julian calendar	1247 MCCXLVII
Korean calendar	3580
Minguo calendar	665 before ROC 民前665年
Thai solar calendar	1789–1790

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

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 exile in Andalusia and North Africa in the subsequent year.
• 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, 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.
• 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.

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)
• Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher

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)