1252
Calendar year
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Year 1252 (MCCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1252 MCCLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2005 |
| Armenian calendar | 701 ԹՎ ՉԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6002 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1173–1174 |
| Bengali calendar | 658–659 |
| Berber calendar | 2202 |
| English Regnal year | 36 Hen. 3 – 37 Hen. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1796 |
| Burmese calendar | 614 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6760–6761 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3949 or 3742 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3950 or 3743 |
| Coptic calendar | 968–969 |
| Discordian calendar | 2418 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1244–1245 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5012–5013 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1308–1309 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1173–1174 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4352–4353 |
| Holocene calendar | 11252 |
| Igbo calendar | 252–253 |
| Iranian calendar | 630–631 |
| Islamic calendar | 649–650 |
| Japanese calendar | Kenchō 4 (建長４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1161–1162 |
| Julian calendar | 1252 MCCLII |
| Korean calendar | 3585 |
| Minguo calendar | 660 before ROC 民前660年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −216 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1794–1795 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1378 or 997 or 225 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1379 or 998 or 226 |
Events
By place
Europe
- April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo.[1][2]
- May 15 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.[3][4]
- June 1 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.[5]
- July – The settlement of Stockholm in Sweden is founded, by Birger Jarl.[6][7]
- December 25 – Christopher I of Denmark is crowned King of Denmark, in the Lund Cathedral.[8][9]
- The Polish land of Lebus is incorporated into the German state of Brandenburg, marking the start of Brandenburg's expansion into previously Polish areas (Neumark).[10]
- The Lithuanian city of Klaipėda (Memel) is founded by the Teutonic Knights.[11][12]
- The town and monastery of Orval Abbey in Belgium burn to the ground; rebuilding takes 100 years.[13]
- Thomas Aquinas travels to the University of Paris, to begin his studies there for a master's degree.[14][15]
- In astronomy, work begins on the recording of the Alfonsine tables.[16]
Asia
- The classic Japanese text Jikkunsho is completed.[17][18]
- The Chinese era Chunyou ends[19] (→ Emperor Lizong).
- Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty: the Mongols take the westernmost province of the Song dynasty empire.[20]
- New Mongol invasion of Tibet.
Births
Deaths
- January 1 – Saint Zdislava Berka, Bohemian lay Dominican benefactress[27]
- January 23 – Isabella, Queen of Armenia[28]
- January – Bohemond V, Prince of Antioch[29][30]
- February 3 – Sviatoslav III of Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1196)[31]
- April 1 – Kujō Michiie, Japanese regent[32]
- April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona[2]
- May 3 or May 4 – Günther von Wüllersleben, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights[33][34]
- May 30 – King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon[35][36]
- June 6 – Robert Passelewe, Bishop of Chichester[37]
- June 9 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg[38][39]
- June 29 – Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)[40][41]
- August 1 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian chronicler of the Mongol Empire[42][43]
- November 27 – Blanche of Castile, queen of Louis VIII of France and regent of France (b. 1188)[44][45]
- date unknown
- John of Basingstoke, English scholar and ecclesiastic[46][47]
- Henry I, Count of Anhalt[48]
- Sorghaghtani Beki, Mongolian empress and regent[49][50]
- Catherine Sunesdotter, Swedish queen consort[51]
- Yesü Möngke, Khan of the Chagatai Khanate[52]