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{{redlinks|date=April 2012}} {{Year nav|1252}} {{Year in various calendars|1252}} {{Year article header|1252}} == Events == * [[May 15]]– [[Pope Innocent IV]] issues the [[papal bull]] ''Ad exstirpanda'', which allows the [[torture]] of [[heresy|heretics]] in the [[Medieval Inquisition]]. Torture is soon used widely across [[Catholicism|Catholic]] [[Europe]]. * The first European gold coins are minted in the [[Italy|Italian]] city of [[Florence]], and are known as [[florin]]s. * The [[Poland|Polish]] [[Lubus Land|land of Lebus]] is made a part of the German state of [[Brandenburg]], beginning [[Brandenburg]]'s expansion into previously Polish areas ([[Neumark]]). * The [[Sweden|Swedish]] city of [[Stockholm]] is founded by [[Birger Jarl]]. * The [[Lithuania]]n city of [[Klaipėda]] is founded by the [[Teutonic Knights]]. * The town and monastery of Orval in [[Belgium]] burns to the ground; rebuilding takes 100 years. * [[Thomas Aquinas]] travels to the [[University of Paris]] to begin his studies there for a [[master's degree]]. * In [[astronomy]], work begins on the recording of the [[Alfonsine tables]]. [[Category:1252| ]]