1256

Events

Europe

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 15Hulagu 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

  • Ibn al-Banna, Arab Mathematician (died 1321)

Deaths

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