1256 Totally Explained

Everything about 1256 totally explained

Years: 1253 1254 1255 - 1256 - 1257 1258 1259
Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s
Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

Events

Europe

May 4 - Pope Alexander IV issues the 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.
Roger Bacon becomes a Franciscan Friar.

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 (d. 1317)

Ibn al-Banna, Arab mathematician (d. 1321)

Deaths

January 28 - William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany

June 13 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)

September 1 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)

October 14 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)

William of Kilkenny, Lord Chancellor of England

Johannes de Sacrobosco, English scholar

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