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| 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 | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1256 MCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2009 |
| Armenian calendar | 705 ԹՎ ՉԵ |
| Chinese calendar | 3892/3952-12-2 (乙卯年十二月初二日) — to — 3893/3953-12-13(丙辰年十二月十三日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1248 – 1249 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5016 – 5017 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1311 – 1312 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1178 – 1179 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4357 – 4358 |
| Iranian calendar | 634 – 635 |
| Islamic calendar | 654 – 655 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1799 |
Contents |
Events
Europe
- May 4 - Pope Alexander IV issues a 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.
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 (died 1317)
- Ibn al-Banna, Arab Mathematician (died 1321)
Deaths
- January 28 - William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany
- June 13 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (born 1173)
- September 1 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (born 1218)
- October 14 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (born 1239)
- William of Kilkenny, Lord Chancellor of England
- Johannes de Sacrobosco, English scholar
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