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Year 1252 (MCCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo.
  • May 15 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
  • December 25 – Christopher I of Denmark is crowned King of Denmark in the Lund Cathedral.
  • The first European gold coins are minted in the Italian city of Florence, and are known as florins.
  • The Polish land of Lebus is incorporated into the German state of Brandenburg, marking the start of Brandenburg's expansion into previously Polish areas (Neumark).
  • The Swedish city of Stockholm is founded by Birger Jarl.
  • The Lithuanian city of Klaipėda (Memel) is founded by the Teutonic Knights.
  • The town and monastery of Orval Abbey in Belgium burn to the ground; rebuilding takes 100 years.
  • Thomas Aquinas travels to the University of Paris to begin his studies there for a masters degree.
  • In astronomy, work begins on the recording of the Alfonsine tables.

    • Asia

  • The classic Japanese text Jikkunsho is completed.
  • The Chinese era Chunyou ends.
  • The Mongols take the westernmost province of the Song dynasty empire.

    • Births

  • March 25 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268)
  • Safi-ad-din Ardabili, Persian Sufi leader
  • Eleanor de Montfort, princess of Wales (d. 1282)

    • Deaths

  • January – Bohemond V, Prince of Antioch
  • January 23 – Isabella, Queen of Armenia
  • February 3 – Sviatoslav III of Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1196)
  • April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona
  • May 3 or May 4 – Günther von Wüllersleben, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
  • May 30 – King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon
  • June 6 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester
  • June 9 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • June 29 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
  • August 1 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian chronicler of the Mongol Empire
  • November 27 – Blanche of Castile, queen of Louis VIII of France and regent of France (b. 1188)
  • date unknown
  • John of Basingstoke, English scholar and ecclesiastic
  • Henry I, Count of Anhalt
  • Sorghaghtani Beki, Mongolian empress and regent
  • Saint Zdislava Berka
  • Kujō Michiie, Japanese regent
  • Catherine of Ymseborg, Swedish queen consort
  • Yesu Mongke, Khan of the Chagatai Khanate

    • References

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