1256
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Years: 1253 1254 1255 - 1256 - 1257 1258 1259 |
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Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s |
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Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century |
1256 by topic | |
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Art and literature | |
1256 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1256 MCCLVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2009 |
Armenian calendar | 705 ԹՎ ՉԵ |
Bahá'í calendar | -588 – -587 |
Berber calendar | 2206 |
Buddhist calendar | 1800 |
Burmese calendar | 618 |
Chinese calendar | 3892/3952-12-2 (乙卯年十二月初二日) — to —
3893/3953-12-13(丙辰年十二月十三日) |
Coptic calendar | 972 – 973 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1248 – 1249 |
Hebrew calendar | 5016 – 5017 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1311 – 1312 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1178 – 1179 |
- Kali Yuga | 4357 – 4358 |
Holocene calendar | 11256 |
Iranian calendar | 634 – 635 |
Islamic calendar | 653 – 654 |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 3589 |
Thai solar calendar | 1799 |
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[edit] Events
[edit] Europe
- May 4 - Pope Alexander IV issues the papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae, constituting the Augustinian monastic order at Lecceto Monastery.
- The city of Lviv, in present-day Ukraine, is founded by Danylo King of Rus.
- Theodore II Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor (in exile in the Empire of Nicaea), successfully concludes a military campaign started a year earlier to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians.
- Abingdon School is founded.
- Roger Bacon becomes a Franciscan Friar.
[edit] Asia
- October - Mongol commander Baiju (operating under Hulagu Khan's command) leads his forces in a victory over Kay Ka'us II of the Sultanate of Rüm, thereby capturing Anatolia.
- December 15 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran.
- Hulagu Khan establishes the Ilkhanate dynasty of Persia, which will become one of four main divisions of the Mongol Empire.
- The Japanese Kenchō era ends, and the Kōgen era begins.
[edit] Births
- January 6 - Gertrude the Great, German mystic
- Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (d. 1317)
- Ibn al-Banna, Arab mathematician (d. 1321)
[edit] Deaths
- January 28 - William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany
- June 13 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
- September 1 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
- October 14 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
- William of Kilkenny, Lord Chancellor of England
- Johannes de Sacrobosco, English scholar