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{{Year nav|1256}} {{Year in various calendars|1256}} {{Year article header|1256}} == Events == === Europe === * [[May 4]] – [[Pope Alexander IV]] issues a [[papal bull]] ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae'' constituting the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[monasticism|monastic]] [[order (religious)|order]] at [[Monastery of the Holy Saviour|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 [[Bulgaria]]ns. 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 [[Iran|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 [[Category:1256| ]]