1262

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century 13th century 14th century
Decades:	1240s 1250s 1260s 1270s 1280s
Years:	1259 1260 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265

1262 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2015
Armenian calendar	711 ԹՎ ՉԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6012
Balinese saka calendar	1183–1184
Bengali calendar	669
Berber calendar	2212
English Regnal year	46 Hen. 3 – 47 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1806
Burmese calendar	624
Byzantine calendar	6770–6771
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3959 or 3752     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3960 or 3753
Coptic calendar	978–979
Discordian calendar	2428
Ethiopian calendar	1254–1255
Hebrew calendar	5022–5023
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1318–1319
- Shaka Samvat	1183–1184
- Kali Yuga	4362–4363
Holocene calendar	11262
Igbo calendar	262–263
Iranian calendar	640–641
Islamic calendar	660–661
Japanese calendar	Kōchō 2 (弘長２年)
Javanese calendar	1171–1173
Julian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Korean calendar	3595
Minguo calendar	650 before ROC 民前650年
Nanakshahi calendar	−206
Thai solar calendar	1804–1805
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1388 or 1007 or 235     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1389 or 1008 or 236

Year 1262 (MCCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• 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.

Europe

• King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots, and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
• The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into the Old Covenant (Gissurarsáttmáli), establishing a union with Norway, and acknowledges King Haakon IV of Norway as its ruler.
• March 8 – Battle of Hausbergen. Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".

Markets

• The Venetian Senate starts consolidating all of the city's outstanding debt into a single fund, later known as the Monte Vecchio. The holders of the newly created prestiti are promised a 5% annual coupon. These claims can be sold, and quickly (before 1320) give rise to the first recorded secondary market for financial assets, in medieval Europe.

Religion

• 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.

Births

• August 5 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (d. 1290)
• probable – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (d. 1312)

Deaths

• April 23 – Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
• July 14 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1222)
• date unknown – Matilda II, Countess of Nevers, French vassal (b. c. 1235)