1256

[edit] Events

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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