Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1230s  1240s  1250s  – 1260s –  1270s  1280s  1290s
Years:	1259 1260 1261 – 1262 – 1263 1264 1265

1262 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1262 in poetry v • d • e

1262 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2015
Armenian calendar	711 ԹՎ ՉԺԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-582 – -581
Bengali calendar	669
Berber calendar	2212
Buddhist calendar	1806
Burmese calendar	624
Byzantine calendar	6770 – 6771
Chinese calendar	辛酉年十二月初九日 (3898/3958-12-9) — to — 壬戌年十一月十九日 (3899/3959-11-19)
Coptic calendar	978 – 979
Ethiopian calendar	1254 – 1255
Hebrew calendar	5022 – 5023
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1317 – 1318
- Shaka Samvat	1184 – 1185
- Kali Yuga	4363 – 4364
Holocene calendar	11262
Iranian calendar	640 – 641
Islamic calendar	660 – 661
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3595
Thai solar calendar	1805
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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 Mangrai of the Lanna Kingdom (present day Northern Thailand, Shan State and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture) founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's 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 authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

Births

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

Deaths

• July 15 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 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 (b. 1202)