1197

1197 (MCXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1197th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 197th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 12th century, and the 8th year of the 1190s decade. As of the start of 1197, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1194 1195 1196 – 1197 – 1198 1199 1200

1197 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1197 MCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1950
Armenian calendar	646 ԹՎ ՈԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5947
Balinese saka calendar	1118–1119
Bengali calendar	604
Berber calendar	2147
English Regnal year	8 Ric. 1 – 9 Ric. 1
Buddhist calendar	1741
Burmese calendar	559
Byzantine calendar	6705–6706
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3893 or 3833     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3894 or 3834
Coptic calendar	913–914
Discordian calendar	2363
Ethiopian calendar	1189–1190
Hebrew calendar	4957–4958
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1253–1254
- Shaka Samvat	1118–1119
- Kali Yuga	4297–4298
Holocene calendar	11197
Igbo calendar	197–198
Iranian calendar	575–576
Islamic calendar	593–594
Japanese calendar	Kenkyū 8 (建久８年)
Javanese calendar	1104–1106
Julian calendar	1197 MCXCVII
Korean calendar	3530
Minguo calendar	715 before ROC 民前715年
Nanakshahi calendar	−271
Seleucid era	1508/1509 AG
Thai solar calendar	1739–1740
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1323 or 942 or 170     — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1324 or 943 or 171

Events

• Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as King of Jerusalem.
• Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.
• The town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland is consecrated, and dedicated to St Thomas Becket.
• Kaloyan becomes tsar of Bulgaria.
• Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.
• Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, negotiates a peace with Wales.
• North Crawley is split into Great Crawley and Little Crawley.
• Philip of Swabia marries Irene Angela, daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II.

Births

• October 22 — Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
• Amadeus IV of Savoy (d. 1253)
• Raymond VII of Toulouse (d. 1249)

Deaths

• January — William Longchamp, Lord Chancellor of England and bishop
• April 28 — Rhys ap Gruffydd, Welsh ruler (b. 1132)
• September 10 — Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
• September 28 — Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
• Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1158)