1247

Summary

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

Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1247 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1247
MCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita2000
Armenian calendar696
ԹՎ ՈՂԶ
Assyrian calendar5997
Balinese saka calendar1168–1169
Bengali calendar654
Berber calendar2197
English Regnal year31 Hen. 3 – 32 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar1791
Burmese calendar609
Byzantine calendar6755–6756
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
3944 or 3737
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3945 or 3738
Coptic calendar963–964
Discordian calendar2413
Ethiopian calendar1239–1240
Hebrew calendar5007–5008
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1303–1304
 - Shaka Samvat1168–1169
 - Kali Yuga4347–4348
Holocene calendar11247
Igbo calendar247–248
Iranian calendar625–626
Islamic calendar644–645
Japanese calendarKangen 5 / Hōji 1
(宝治元年)
Javanese calendar1156–1157
Julian calendar1247
MCCXLVII
Korean calendar3580
Minguo calendar665 before ROC
民前665年
Nanakshahi calendar−221
Thai solar calendar1789–1790
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
King James I of Aragon (above) during a council led by the bishop of Huesca.

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  • June 17 – Egyptian forces under Sultan As-Salih Ayyub capture Tiberias and his castle. Mount Tabor and Belvoir Castle are occupied soon afterward. Next, Ayyub moves his army to siege Ascalon – which is defended by a garrison of Knights Hospitaller. They summon the help from Acre and Cyprus.[3]
  • Summer – King Henry I (the Fat) sends a Cypriot squadron of 8 galleys with 100 knights led by Baldwin of Ibelin, to Acre. With the support of the Italian colonists, they fitted out 7 more galleys and some 50 lighter ships, to relieve the siege at Ascalon – which is now blockaded by the Egyptian fleet.[4]
  • The Egyptian fleet (some 20 galleys) confronts the Crusader ships led by Baldwin of Ibelin at Ascalon. But before contact is made, it is caught in a sudden Mediterranean storm. Many of the Muslim ships are driven ashore and wrecked; the survivors sail back to Egypt.
  • October 15 – Egyptian forces under As-Salih Ayyub capture Ascalon by surprise – while a battering-ram forces a passageway under the walls right into the citadel. Most of the defenders are massacred, and the remainder of the garrison is taken prisoner.[5]

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  1. ^ Joseph F. O'Callaghan (2004). Reconquest and crusade in Medieval Spain, pp. 113–116. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1889-3.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Irwin, Robert (1986). The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate, 1250–1382, p. 19. Southern Illinois University Press/Croom Helm. ISBN 1-5974-0466-7.
  4. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 191. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
  5. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre, p. 192. ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0.
  6. ^ Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. p. 3987. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.
  7. ^   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferrers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 286.