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This article is about the year 1256.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
| Decades: | 1220s 1230s 1240s – 1250s – 1260s 1270s 1280s |
| Years: | 1253 1254 1255 – 1256 – 1257 1258 1259 |
| 1256 by topic | |
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| 1256 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1256 MCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2009 |
| Armenian calendar | 705 ԹՎ ՉԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6006 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -588–-587 |
| Bengali calendar | 663 |
| Berber calendar | 2206 |
| English Regnal year | 40 Hen. 3 – 41 Hen. 3 |
| 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 | 1312–1313 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1178–1179 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4357–4358 |
| Holocene calendar | 11256 |
| Iranian calendar | 634–635 |
| Islamic calendar | 653–654 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3589 |
| Minguo calendar | 656 before ROC 民前656年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1799 |
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Year 1256 (MCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- May 4 – Pope Alexander IV issues the papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae, constituting the Order of Saint Augustine 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.
- Church of Santa Costanza, Rome, is consecrated as a church.
- The ancient Irish Kingdom of Breifne splits into East Breifne and West Breifne after a war between the O'Reillys and the O'Rourkes.
[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, Arabian 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
