1258

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1230s 1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s
Years:	1255 1256 1257 1258 1259 1260 1261

1258 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1258 MCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2011
Armenian calendar	707 ԹՎ ՉԷ
Assyrian calendar	6008
Balinese saka calendar	1179–1180
Bengali calendar	665
Berber calendar	2208
English Regnal year	42 Hen. 3 – 43 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1802
Burmese calendar	620
Byzantine calendar	6766–6767
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3955 or 3748     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3956 or 3749
Coptic calendar	974–975
Discordian calendar	2424
Ethiopian calendar	1250–1251
Hebrew calendar	5018–5019
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1314–1315
- Shaka Samvat	1179–1180
- Kali Yuga	4358–4359
Holocene calendar	11258
Igbo calendar	258–259
Iranian calendar	636–637
Islamic calendar	655–656
Japanese calendar	Shōka (era) 2 (正嘉２年)
Javanese calendar	1167–1168
Julian calendar	1258 MCCLVIII
Korean calendar	3591
Minguo calendar	654 before ROC 民前654年
Nanakshahi calendar	−210
Thai solar calendar	1800–1801
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1384 or 1003 or 231     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1385 or 1004 or 232

Hulagu's army attacks Baghdad.

Year 1258 (MCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Global

• Observed effects of an eruption of the Samalas volcano (Mount Rinjani) in late 1257 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.

Asia

• February 10 – The Siege of Baghdad ends with a battle in which 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.
• The Chinese era Baoyou ends in the Northern Song Dynasty of China.
• Korea surrenders to the Mongols, ending the effective resistance of the Choe faction within Korea.

Europe

• 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.
• Gissur Thorvaldsson is made Earl of Iceland by King Haakon IV of Norway.
• Mongol Golden Horde attack against Lithuania.
• The Battle of Karydi ends the War of the Euboeote Succession in a crushing victory for the Prince of Achaea, William II of Villehardouin.

By topic

Markets

• In Genoa, the Republic starts imposing forced loans, known as luoghi to its taxpayers; they are a common resource of medieval public finance.

Religion

• Civil unrest in northern Italy spawns the medieval musical form of Geisslerlieder, penitential songs sung by wandering bands of Flagellants.

Births

• Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1326)
• Trần Nhân Tông, emperor of Vietnam (d. 1308)
• probable
  • Arghun, fourth Ilkhanate ruler of Iran (d. 1291)
  • Henry IV Probus, Duke of Wroclaw (d. 1290)

Deaths

• January – Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. c. 1200) (alternative date is February)
• February – Sulaiman Shah, Abbasid soldier
• February 20 – Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
• June 2 – Peter I of Urgell, Count of Urgell
• August 18 – Theodore II Laskaris, emperor of Nicea (Byzantine Emperor in exile)
• August 25 – George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicaea
• November 10 – William de Bondington, Bishop of Glasgow
• Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili, Moroccan spiritual leader (b. 1175)
• Clement of Dunblane, first Dominican bishop in Britain
• Hong Bok-won, Goryeo commander who later served the Mongol Empire