1256

'Years:' 1253 1254 1255 - 1256 - 1257 1258 1259

'Decades:' 1220s 1230s 1240s - '1250s' - 1260s 1270s 1280s

'Centuries:' 12th century - '13th century' - 14th century

Contents

Events

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

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.
Abingdon School is founded.

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