947
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 947 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
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| Gregorian calendar | 947 CMXLVII | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1700 | 
| Armenian calendar | 396 ԹՎ ՅՂԶ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5697 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 868–869 | 
| Bengali calendar | 353–354 | 
| Berber calendar | 1897 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1491 | 
| Burmese calendar | 309 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6455–6456 | 
| Chinese calendar | 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3644 or 3437 — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3645 or 3438 | 
| Coptic calendar | 663–664 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2113 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 939–940 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4707–4708 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1003–1004 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 868–869 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4047–4048 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10947 | 
| Iranian calendar | 325–326 | 
| Islamic calendar | 335–336 | 
| Japanese calendar | Tengyō 10 / Tenryaku 1 (天暦元年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 847–848 | 
| Julian calendar | 947 CMXLVII | 
| Korean calendar | 3280 | 
| Minguo calendar | 965 before ROC 民前965年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −521 | 
| Seleucid era | 1258/1259 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1489–1490 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1073 or 692 or −80 — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1074 or 693 or −79 | 
Year 947 (CMXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.