1237

This article is about the year 1237. For the number, see 1237 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1234 1235 1236 – 1237 – 1238 1239 1240

1237 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1237 in poetry

1237 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1237 MCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1990
Armenian calendar	686 ԹՎ ՈՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	5987
Bengali calendar	644
Berber calendar	2187
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 3 – 22 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1781
Burmese calendar	599
Byzantine calendar	6745–6746
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3933 or 3873     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3934 or 3874
Coptic calendar	953–954
Discordian calendar	2403
Ethiopian calendar	1229–1230
Hebrew calendar	4997–4998
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1293–1294
- Shaka Samvat	1159–1160
- Kali Yuga	4338–4339
Holocene calendar	11237
Igbo calendar	237–238
Iranian calendar	615–616
Islamic calendar	634–635
Japanese calendar	Katei 3 (嘉禎３年)
Julian calendar	1237 MCCXXXVII
Korean calendar	3570
Minguo calendar	675 before ROC 民前675年
Thai solar calendar	1779–1780

Year 1237 (MCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Thomas II of Savoy becomes count of Flanders.
• Elbing is founded in the State of the Teutonic Order. Today Elbląg in Poland.
• After turning aside south for 15 years to invade the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Persia—united now under Batu Khan with representatives of all 4 khanates leading 150,000 Mongol, Turkish and Persian troops into Europe, resume the European invasion with the resumption of Mongol invasion of Rus' foreshadowed by.
• December 21 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Sack of Ryazan.
• Gualdo Tadino, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• The County of Artois is founded in France.
• Baldwin II becomes Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
• Conrad IV of Germany becomes King of Germany.
• Livonian Crusade: After their defeat in the Battle of Saule, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword are absorbed into the Teutonic Order as the autonomous Livonian Order. Beginning of Estonian rebellion on Saaremaa island.
• Battle of Cortenuova: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Lombard League.
• A major fire destroys some 30,000 dwellings in the Chinese capital city of Hangzhou.
• September 25 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

Births

• Bohemond VI of Antioch, ruler of the principality of Antioch

Deaths

• February 2 – Joan, Lady of Wales
• April 15 – Richard Poore, English ecclesiastic
• June 6 – John de Scotia, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
• probable – Pons de Capduelh, French troubadour