1262

This article is about the year 1262.

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

Art and literature

1262 in poetry

1262 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2015
Armenian calendar	711 ԹՎ ՉԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6012
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	1184–1185
- Kali Yuga	4363–4364
Holocene calendar	11262
Igbo calendar	262–263
Iranian calendar	640–641
Islamic calendar	660–661
Japanese calendar	Kōchō 2 (弘長２年)
Julian calendar	1262 MCCLXII
Korean calendar	3595
Minguo calendar	650 before ROC 民前650年
Thai solar calendar	1804–1805

Year 1262 (MCCLXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• 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.

Europe

• King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
• The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into the Old Covenant (Gissurarsáttmáli) establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges King Haakon IV of Norway as its ruler.
• Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".

Markets

• The Venetian Senate starts consolidating all of the city's outstanding debt into a single fund, later known as the Monte Vecchio. The holders of the newly created prestiti are promised a 5% annual coupon. These claims can be sold and quickly (before 1320) give rise to the first recorded secondary market for financial assets in medieval Europe.

Religion

• 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)