1247

'Years:' 1244 1245 1246 - 1247 - 1248 1249 1250

'Decades:' 1210s 1220s 1230s - '1240s' - 1250s 1260s 1270s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ 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.

★ Thuringian War of Succession begins.

★ Qin Jiushao publishes the original form of the Chinese remainder theorem.

★ Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.

★ 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 (died 1271)

★ Angelo da Clareno, founder of Fraticelli (died 1337)

★ Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (died 1255)

★ John II, Count of Hainaut (died 1304)

★ Rashid al-Din, Persian writer and historian (died 1318)

★ Zhang Sanfeng, Chinese Taoist priest

★ Giles of Rome, Roman archbishop and philosopher

Deaths

★ February 16 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (born 1204).

★ Death of William de Ferrers.