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{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2011}}{{Year dab|1255}}{{Year nav|1255}}{{C13 year in topic}}Year 1255 (MCCLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Asia - Hulagu Khan is dispatched by his brother Möngke Khan, to destroy the remaining Muslim states in southwestern Asia.
Europe - May – William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus, from his missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia, his efforts having been unsuccessful.
- August – The final Cathar stronghold in southern France falls, eliminating their last refuge, since the Roman Catholic Church began the Albigensian Crusade to crush the sect in 1209.
- The death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln prompts the persecution of Jews in England, based on the blood libel.
- Lisbon becomes the capital of Portugal.
- A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a followup to the Domesday Book completed in 1086; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys, in 1274/1275 and 1279/1280.
- Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) is founded by the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, and named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
- Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (in exile in the Empire of Nicaea), conducts a military campaign to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians. He concludes the task successfully a year later, in 1256.
- The Duchy of Bavaria is split into Upper and Lower Bavaria.
- The lands of the House of Nassau are divided, not to be reunited until 1806.
- King Béla IV of Hungary grants Banská Bystrica the municipal rights of a royal town.
By topicArts and culture- The Gothic cathedral at Bourges, France, is completed (it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
Markets- At the death of Bernardo Bonsignori, his brother, Orlando, is left sole director of the largest banking firm in western Europe, the Gran Tavola of Siena. [1]
Births - July – Albert I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1308)
- October 23 – Ferdinand de la Cerda, Spanish noble (d. 1275)
- William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros, claimant to the crown of Scotland (d. 1317)
- Duccio di Buoninsegna, Sienese painter (d. 1319)
- Margherita Colonna, Italian abbess (d. 1284)
- Grand Prince Andrey of Gorodets (approximate date; d. 1304)
- Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans (approximate date; d. 1298)
Deaths - May 1 – Walter de Gray, English prelate and statesman
- August 27 – Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (b. 1247)
- Batu Khan, Mongol ruler and founder of the Blue Horde
- Alice, Countess of Bigorre, ruler
- Jarler, Archbishop of Uppsala since 1236
- Sundiata Keita, semi-historical hero and founder of the Mali Empire (approximate date; b. c. 1190)
References 1. ^{{cite web|last=Catoni|first=Giuliano|title=BONSIGNORI|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/bonsignori_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|work=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|accessdate=20 December 2011}}
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