1245

This article is about the year 1245.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1210s  1220s  1230s  – 1240s –  1250s  1260s  1270s
Years:	1242 1243 1244 – 1245 – 1246 1247 1248

1245 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1245 in poetry

1245 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1245 MCCXLV
Ab urbe condita	1998
Armenian calendar	694 ԹՎ ՈՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	5995
Bengali calendar	652
Berber calendar	2195
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 3 – 30 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1789
Burmese calendar	607
Byzantine calendar	6753–6754
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3941 or 3881     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3942 or 3882
Coptic calendar	961–962
Discordian calendar	2411
Ethiopian calendar	1237–1238
Hebrew calendar	5005–5006
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1301–1302
- Shaka Samvat	1167–1168
- Kali Yuga	4346–4347
Holocene calendar	11245
Igbo calendar	245–246
Iranian calendar	623–624
Islamic calendar	642–643
Japanese calendar	Kangen 3 (寛元３年)
Julian calendar	1245 MCCXLV
Korean calendar	3578
Minguo calendar	667 before ROC 民前667年
Thai solar calendar	1787–1788

Year 1245 (MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 16 – Pope Innocent IV sends Giovanni da Pian del Carpine to the Mongol court, suggesting (amongst other things) that the Mongols convert to Christianity and join the Crusades.
• June 28 – Opening of the First Council of Lyon, in the course of which Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated and deposed, and the Seventh Crusade is proclaimed.
• August 1 – The second of two papal bulls refers to the marriage of King Sancho II of Portugal to Mécia Lopes de Haro and decrees the deposition of the king.
• date unknown
  • Witness of the toll taken by war and fiscal pressure in the kingdom of Castile, the region of Segovia is described this year as depopulated and sterile.
  • The rebuilding of Westminster Abbey is started.

Births

• January 16 – Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
• April 3 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
• date unknown – Boniface of Savoy

Deaths

• August 19 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
• August 21 – Alexander of Hales, English theologian