1258

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Years: 1255 1256 1257 - 1258 - 1259 1260 1261

Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s

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

1258 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

1258 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1258 MCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2011
Armenian calendar	707 ԹՎ ՉԷ
Chinese calendar	3894/3954-11-25 (丁巳年十一月廿五日) — to — 3895/3955-12-5 (戊午年十二月初五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1250 – 1251
Hebrew calendar	5018 – 5019
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1313 – 1314
- Shaka Samvat	1180 – 1181
- Kali Yuga	4359 – 4360
Iranian calendar	636 – 637
Islamic calendar	656 – 657
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year	Kōki 1918 (皇紀1918年)
- Jōmon Era	11258
Thai solar calendar	1801

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Notes

[edit] Events

• c. January - One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the Holocene epoch occurs, possibly from a tropical location such as El Chichón, Mexico or Quilotoa, Ecuador. ^[1] Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in France; lunar eclipses in England; severe winter in Europe; a "harsh" spring in Northern Iceland; famine in England, Western Germany, France, and Northern Italy; and pestilence in London, parts of France, Austria, Iraq, Syria, and South-East Turkey. ^[2]

• February 10 - Battle of Baghdad (1258) - Hulagu Khan's Mongol forces overrun Baghdad, then the leading center of Islamic culture and learning and capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. They burn the imperial city to the ground, killing as many as 1,000,000 citizens.

• Llywelyn the Last declares himself Prince of Wales. He is the final ruler of an independent Wales, before its conquest by the English.
• King Henry III of England is forced by seven powerful barons to accept the Provisions of Oxford, effectively ending the absolute monarchy in England by requiring the calling of a parliament.
• The Chinese era Baoyou ends in the Northern Song Dynasty of China.
• Civil unrest in northern Italy spawns the medieval musical form of Geisslerlieder, penitential songs sung by wandering bands of Flagellants.

[edit] Births

• Arghun, fourth Ilkhanate ruler of Iran (approximate date; died 1291)
• Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1326)

[edit] Deaths

• February 20 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
• August 18 - Theodore II Lascaris, emperor of Nicea (Byzantine Emperor in exile)
• Hong Bok-won, Goryeo commander who later served the Mongol Empire
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (born 1295)
• Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol (born c. 1200)
• Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili, Moroccan spiritual leader (born 1175)

[edit] Notes