Years: 1241 1242 1243 - 1244 - 1245 1246 1247

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

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

1244 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1244 in poetry v • d • e

1244 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1244 MCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1997
Armenian calendar	693 ԹՎ ՈՂԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-600 – -599
Berber calendar	2194
Buddhist calendar	1788
Burmese calendar	606
Byzantine calendar	6752 – 6753
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十一月二十日 (3880/3940-11-20) — to — 甲辰年十二月初一日 (3881/3941-12-1)
Coptic calendar	960 – 961
Ethiopian calendar	1236 – 1237
Hebrew calendar	5004 – 5005
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1299 – 1300
- Shaka Samvat	1166 – 1167
- Kali Yuga	4345 – 4346
Holocene calendar	11244
Iranian calendar	622 – 623
Islamic calendar	641 – 642
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3577
Thai solar calendar	1787
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This article is about the year 1244.

Events

• Dogen Zenji establishes the Eiheiji temple in Japan, thus founding the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism.
• Sultan Malik al-Muattam razes the city walls of Jerusalem.
• James I of Aragon reconquers Altea, Spain.
• The Cathars of Montségur surrender after a 9-month siege.
• Siege and Fall of Jerusalem leading to the Seventh Crusade

Births

• June 24 - Henry I of Hesse (d. 1308)
• Archbishop Henry II of Virneburg (d. 1332)

Deaths

• March 1 - Gruffyd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
• Jeanne, Countess of Flanders and Hainault(b. 1199/1200)
• Eleonore, daughter of king Alfonso VIII and Eleonore Plantagenet
• Witco de Perchyc, Bohemian noble (b. 1177)