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- For broader historical context, see 13th century.
| Years: 1255 1256 1257 - 1258 - 1259 1260 1261 | |
| Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s | |
| Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century 1258 state leaders | |
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Events
- February 10 - The Hulagu Khan's Mongol forces overrun Baghdad, then the leading center of Islamic culture and learning, burning it to the ground and killing as many as 800,000 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.
Births
Sultan Osman I was born in 1258.
- Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire
Deaths
- January or February - Count Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol
- February 20 - Al-Musta'sim, Abbasid Caliph
- August - Theodore II Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor
- Theodore II Lascaris, emperor of Nicaea
- Adam Marsh, English Franciscan, scholar, and theologian
- Hong Bok-won, Korean turncoat and an administrator for the Mongol Empire
- Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
See also
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