1262

1262 (MCCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1262nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 262nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1260s decade. As of the start of 1262, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1262 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2015
Armenian calendar	711 ԹՎ ՉԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6012
Balinese saka calendar	1183–1184
Bengali calendar	669
Berber calendar	2212
English Regnal year	46 Hen. 3 – 47 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1806
Burmese calendar	624
Byzantine calendar	6770–6771
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3958 or 3898     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3959 or 3899
Coptic calendar	978–979
Discordian calendar	2428
Ethiopian calendar	1254–1255
Hebrew calendar	5022–5023
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1318–1319
- Shaka Samvat	1183–1184
- Kali Yuga	4362–4363
Holocene calendar	11262
Igbo calendar	262–263
Iranian calendar	640–641
Islamic calendar	660–661
Japanese calendar	Kōchō 2 (弘長２年)
Javanese calendar	1171–1173
Julian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Korean calendar	3595
Minguo calendar	650 before ROC 民前650年
Nanakshahi calendar	−206
Thai solar calendar	1804–1805
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 1388 or 1007 or 235     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1389 or 1008 or 236

Events

• King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
• The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.
• Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
• King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull releasing him from the Provisions of Oxford, preceding the Second Barons' War, a civil war started in 1263.
• King Mengrai of the Lannathai kingdom in present-day Thailand founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's first capital.
• Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".
• Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for writing the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

Births

• July 2 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (died 1312)
• Ladislaus IV of Hungary (died 1290)
• Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (died 1326)

Deaths

• July 15 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (born 1222)
• Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
• Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
• Matilda II of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (born 1202)