1147

This article is about the year 1147.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1144 1145 1146 – 1147 – 1148 1149 1150

1147 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1147 in poetry

1147 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1147 MCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	1900
Armenian calendar	596 ԹՎ ՇՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	5897
Bengali calendar	554
Berber calendar	2097
English Regnal year	12 Ste. 1 – 13 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1691
Burmese calendar	509
Byzantine calendar	6655–6656
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3843 or 3783     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3844 or 3784
Coptic calendar	863–864
Discordian calendar	2313
Ethiopian calendar	1139–1140
Hebrew calendar	4907–4908
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1203–1204
- Shaka Samvat	1069–1070
- Kali Yuga	4248–4249
Holocene calendar	11147
Igbo calendar	147–148
Iranian calendar	525–526
Islamic calendar	541–542
Japanese calendar	Kyūan 3 (久安３年)
Julian calendar	1147 MCXLVII
Korean calendar	3480
Minguo calendar	765 before ROC 民前765年
Seleucid era	1458/1459 AG
Thai solar calendar	1689–1690

Year 1147 (MCXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• April – Abd al-Mu'min destroys the Almoravid Empire after capturing Marrakech and killing the last emir, Ishaq ibn Ali.
• The Siculo-NormanNormans take control of Gabes.

Asia

• October 25 – Battle of Dorylaeum, the Seljuq Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III.

Europe

• The beginning of the Second Crusade.

Eastern Europe

• June – The Wendish Crusade fail to convert most of the Polabian Slavs.
• The cities of Moscow and Vologda are first mentioned in written records.

Southern Europe

• July 1–October 25 – with the support of English and Flemish Crusaders, Afonso I of Portugal besieges and conquers Lisbon (Siege of Lisbon). The same year, the troops of the young Portuguese kingdom take Sintra and Santarém (Conquest of Santarém) and sack Palmela.
• September – Arrival of the German contingent of the Second Crusade before Constantinople; after a battle before the city walls, the Germans accept to be ferried over the Bosporus to Asia.
• Roger II of Sicily takes Corfu from the Byzantine Empire, and pillages Corinth, Athens and Thebes.
• October 7 – Almería, one of the most important maritime and commercial centers of al-Andalus, falls into Christian hands after two months of siege.
• The Almohad general Mohammad al-Masufi conquers Seville.
• Consecration of the church of San Frediano in Lucca

By topic

Religion

• Dore Abbey is founded.
• Hildegard of Bingen founds the convent of Rupertsberg near Bingen.
• Foundation of Jedburgh Abbey by David I of Scotland

Births

• May 9 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
• Emperor Guangzong of Song (d. 1200)
• Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester (d. 1181)
• Ibn Qudamah, Islamic scholar (d. 1223)
• Shōkū, Buddhist leader (d. 1247)
• King Stephen III of Hungary (d. 1172)
• Taira no Munemori, Japanese warrior (d. 1185)
• Wada Yoshimori, Japanese military commander (d. 1213)
• probable – Raimbaut of Orange, troubadour (d. 1173)

Deaths

• January 14 – Robert de Craon, second Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• April 6 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia, (b. 1090)
• September 19 – Igor II of Kiev
• October 31 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (b. c. 1090)
• December 25 – Guy II, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1120)
• date unknown
  • John Capellanus, Scottish bishop
  • Comita II of Arborea, ruler of Arborea
  • Pietro Polani, 36th Doge of Venice
  • William fitz Duncan, Scottish prince