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Year 1256 (MCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • May 4 – Pope Alexander IV issues the papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae, constituting the Order of Saint Augustine 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.
  • August 25: In Bologna slavery and serfdom is abolished, the event is recorded in the document called Liber Paradisus
  • Roger Bacon becomes a Franciscan Friar.
  • Church of Santa Costanza, Rome, is consecrated as a church.
  • The ancient Irish Kingdom of Breifne splits into East Breifne and West Breifne after a war between the O'Reillys and the O'Rourkes.
  • Beginning of the War of the Euboeote Succession, involving most of the lords of Frankish Greece and the Republic of Venice.

    • Asia

  • June 30 – A large volcanic eruption in Harrat Rahat near Medina is associated with an Islamic prophecy.
  • 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 Rum, 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, Arabian mathematician (d. 1321)

    • Deaths

  • January 28 – William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany
  • June 13 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
  • September 1 – Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
  • September 21 – William of Kilkenny, Lord Chancellor of England
  • October 14 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
  • Johannes de Sacrobosco, English scholar

    • References

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