Years: 1253 1254 1255 - 1256 - 1257 1258 1259

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

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

1256 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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Art and literature

1256 in poetry v • d • e

1256 in other calendars

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
Byzantine calendar	6764 – 6765
Chinese calendar	乙卯年十二月初二日 (3892/3952-12-2) — to — 丙辰年十二月十三日 (3893/3953-12-13)
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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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

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.

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.

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)

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