1262
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| Years: 1259 1260 1261 – 1262 – 1263 1264 1265 |
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| Decades: 1230s 1240s 1250s – 1260s – 1270s 1280s 1290s |
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| Centuries: 12th century – 13th century – 14th century |
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| 1262 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1262 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1262 MCCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2015 |
| Armenian calendar | 711 ԹՎ ՉԺԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -582 – -581 |
| Bengali calendar | 669 |
| Berber calendar | 2212 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1806 |
| Burmese calendar | 624 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6770 – 6771 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年十二月初九日 (3898/3958-12-9) — to —
壬戌年十一月十九日(3899/3959-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 978 – 979 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1254 – 1255 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5022 – 5023 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1317 – 1318 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1184 – 1185 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4363 – 4364 |
| Holocene calendar | 11262 |
| Iranian calendar | 640 – 641 |
| Islamic calendar | 660 – 661 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3595 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1805 |
[edit] Events
- King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.
- Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
- King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull releasing him from the Provisions of Oxford, preceding the Second Barons' War, a civil war started in 1263.
- King Mangrai of the Lanna Kingdom (present day Northern Thailand, Shan State and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture) founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's capital.
- Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".
- Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.
[edit] Births
- July 2 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
- Ladislaus IV of Hungary (d. 1290)
- Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (d. 1326)
[edit] Deaths
- July 15 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
- Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
- Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
- Matilda II of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1202)
