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1258
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1257
1257 BC
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12574 LONEOS
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12577 Samra
12578 Bensaur
12579 Ceva
1258
1258 BC
1258 Sicilia
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12583 Buckjean
12585 Katschwar...
1259
1259 BC
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Years:
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1256
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1259
1260
1261
Decades
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1220s
1230s
1240s
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1250s
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1260s
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1280s
Centuries
:
12th century
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13th century
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14th century
Events
January
- One of the largest volcanic eruptions of the
Holocene
epoch occurs, possibly from a tropical location such as
El Chichón
,
Mexico
or Quilotoa,
Ecuador
. Observed effects of the eruption include the following anecdotal accounts: dry fog in
France
;
lunar eclipses
in
England
; severe winter in
Europe
; a "harsh" spring in Northern
Iceland
; famine in England,
Western Germany
, France, and
Northern Italy
; and
pestilence
in
London
, parts of France,
Austria
,
Iraq
,
Syria
, and South-East
Turkey
.
February 10
-
Battle of Baghdad (1258)
-
Hulagu Khan
's
Mongol
forces overrun
Baghdad
, then the leading center of
Islamic
culture and learning and capital of the
Abbasid Caliphate
. They burn the imperial city to the ground, killing as many as 1,000,000 citizens.
Llywelyn the Last
declares himself
Prince of Wales
. He is the final ruler of an independent
Wales
, before its conquest by the
English
.
King
Henry III of England
is forced by seven powerful barons to accept the
Provisions of Oxford
, effectively ending the
absolute monarchy
in
England
by requiring the calling of a
parliament
.
The
Chinese era
Baoyou
ends in the Northern
Song Dynasty
of
China
.
Civil unrest in northern
Italy
spawns the
medieval musical
form of
Geisslerlieder
, penitential songs sung by wandering bands of
Flagellants
.
Gissur Thorvaldsson
is made Earl of
Iceland
by King
Haakon IV of Norway
.
Korea
surrenders to the
Mongols
.
Births
Arghun
, fourth Ilkhanate ruler of Iran (approximate date; d.
1291
)
Osman I
, founder of the
Ottoman Empire
(d.
1326
)
Deaths
February 20
-
Al-Musta'sim
, last
Abbasid
Caliph
of Baghdad
August 18
-
Theodore II Lascaris
, emperor of Nicea (
Byzantine Emperor
in exile)
Hong Bok-won
,
Goryeo
commander who later served the
Mongol Empire
Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol
(b. c.
1200
)
Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili
, Moroccan spiritual leader (b.
1175
)
Clement of Dunblane
, 13th-century
Dominican friar
who was the first member of the Dominican Order in Britain to become a bishop
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