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Gregorian calendar 1258
MCCLVIII
Ab urbe condita 2011
Armenian calendar 707
ԹՎ ՉԷ
Assyrian calendar 6008
Balinese saka calendar 1179–1180
Bengali calendar 664–665
Berber calendar 2208
English Regnal year 42  Hen. 3  – 43  Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar 1802
Burmese calendar 620
Byzantine calendar 6766–6767
Chinese calendar 丁巳年 (Fire  Snake)
3955 or 3748
    — to —
戊午年 (Earth  Horse)
3956 or 3749
Coptic calendar 974–975
Discordian calendar 2424
Ethiopian calendar 1250–1251
Hebrew calendar 5018–5019
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1314–1315
 - Shaka Samvat 1179–1180
 - Kali Yuga 4358–4359
Holocene calendar 11258
Igbo calendar 258–259
Iranian calendar 636–637
Islamic calendar 655–656
Japanese calendar Shōka (era) 2
(正嘉２年)
Javanese calendar 1167–1168
Julian calendar 1258
MCCLVIII
Korean calendar 3591
Minguo calendar 654 before ROC
民前654年
Nanakshahi calendar −210
Thai solar calendar 1800–1801
Tibetan calendar མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Fire-Snake)
1384 or 1003 or 231
    — to —
ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Horse)
1385 or 1004 or 232
Mongols besiege the walls of Baghdad Bagdad1258.jpg
Mongols besiege the walls of Baghdad

Year 1258 ( MCCLVIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

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Events

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Mongol Empire

  • February 10 – Siege of Baghdad: Mongol forces (some 150,000 men), led by Hulagu Khan, besiege and conquer Baghdad after a siege of 13 days. During the first week of February, the eastern walls begin to collapse, and the Mongols swarm into the city, on February 10. Caliph Al-Musta'sim surrenders himself to Hulagu – together with all the Abbasid chief officers and officials. They are ordered to lay down their arms, and are massacred. Hulagu imprisons Al-Musta'sim among his treasures, to starve him to death. Meanwhile, massacres continue throughout the whole city; in 40 days about 80,000 citizens are murdered. The only survivors are the ones who are hiding in cellars which are not discovered, and a number of attractive girls and boys who are kept to be slaves, and the Christian community, who take refuge in the churches which are left undisturbed, by the special orders of Hulagu's wife, Doquz Khatun. [1]
  • February 15 – Hulagu Khan enters Baghdad, where many quarters of the city are ruined by fire. The House of Wisdom (or Great Library) is destroyed, numerous precious book collections are thrown into the Tigris River. Before the siege, about 400,000 manuscripts are rescued by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian polymath and theologian, who takes them to Maragheh observatory (located in East Azerbaijan Province). The sack of Baghdad brings an end to the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) and the Islamic Golden Age. Many professors, physicians, scientists, clerics, artists and lecturers are also massacred.

Europe

British Isles

Levant

  • June 25 – Battle of Acre: The Genoese send an armada (some 50 galleys) to relieve the blockade at Acre and ask for the assistance of Philip of Montfort, lord of Tyre, and the Knights Hospitaller for a combined attack from the land side. The Genoese fleet's arrival takes the Venetians by surprise but the superior experience and seamanship result in a crushing Venetian victory, with half the Genoese ships lost. Later, the Genoese garrison is forced to abandon Acre. [6] [7]

Asia

  • Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Mongol forces (some 30,000 men) under Uriyangkhadai, son of Subutai, invade Vietnam. After many battles, the Vietnam army is routed and defeated. The senior leaders are able to escape on pre-prepared boats, while the remnants are destroyed on the banks of the Red River. The Mongols occupy the capital city, Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi), and massacres the city's inhabitants, by the end of January. [8]

By topic

Global

Markets

  • The Republic of Genoa starts imposing forced loans, known as luoghi, onto its taxpayers; they are a common resource of medieval public finance. [10]

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol III: Kingdom of Acre, p. 253. ISBN   978-0-241-29877-0.
  2. ↑ Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, p. 161. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN   0-472-08260-4.
  3. ↑ Stubbs, William (2012) [1913]. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First (in Latin). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 389. ISBN   9781108044936.
  4. ↑ Brand, Paul (2003). Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–5. ISBN   9781139439077.
  5. 1 2 Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 84–86. ISBN   0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ↑ Marshall, Christopher (1994). Warfare in the Latin East, 1192–1291, pp. 39–40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521477420.
  7. ↑ Stanton, Charles D. (2015). Medieval Maritime Warfare, pp. 182–184. Pen and Sword. ISBN   978-1-4738-5643-1.
  8. ↑ Baldanza, Kathlene (2016). Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia, p. 18. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-53131-0.
  9. ↑ Stothers, R. B. (2000). "Climatic and Demographic consequences of the massive volcanic eruption of 1258". Climatic Change. 45 (2): 361–374. Bibcode:2000ClCh...45..361S. doi:10.1023/A:1005523330643. S2CID   42314185.
  10. ↑ Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review. 15 (3): 506–562.
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