Years: 1251 1252 1253 - 1254 - 1255 1256 1257

Decades: 1220s 1230s 1240s - 1250s - 1260s 1270s 1280s

Centuries: 12th century - 13th century - 14th century

1254 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

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Births - Deaths

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Art and literature

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1254 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1254 MCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2007
Armenian calendar	703 ԹՎ ՉԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-590 – -589
Berber calendar	2204
Buddhist calendar	1798
Burmese calendar	616
Byzantine calendar	6762 – 6763
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十二月十一日 (3890/3950-12-11) — to — 甲寅年十一月二十日 (3891/3951-11-20)
Coptic calendar	970 – 971
Ethiopian calendar	1246 – 1247
Hebrew calendar	5014 – 5015
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1309 – 1310
- Shaka Samvat	1176 – 1177
- Kali Yuga	4355 – 4356
Holocene calendar	11254
Iranian calendar	632 – 633
Islamic calendar	651 – 652
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3587
Thai solar calendar	1797
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Louis IX of France ends the unsuccessful Seventh Crusade in 1254.

Events

Europe

War and politics

• October 10 - Edward Plantagenet marries Eleanor of Castile. His father Henry III had demanded the marriage in exchange for ending the war with her brother Alfonso X of Castile.
• December 2 - Manfred of Sicily defeats the army of Pope Innocent IV at Foggia.
• King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade (which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria) and returns to France.
• King Louis IX of France expels all Jews from France.
• King Afonso III of Portugal holds the first session of the Cortes (Portugal's general assembly composed of nobles, members of the middle class, and representatives from all municipalities) in Leiria.
• In England, an important step in the evolution of the Parliament and Peerage occurs, as lesser barons are replaced on the King's Council by elected representatives from shires and cities.
• Pope Innocent IV excommunicates Conrad IV of Germany and Rudolph I of Germany (later elected Holy Roman Emperor).
• The Ghibelline town of Pistoia is taken over by Guelph Florence.

Culture

• The Danish city of Copenhagen receives its city charter.
• The Horses of Saint Mark, once supposed to have adorned the Arch of Trajan in ancient Rome, are installed at Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice.
• The Swedish city of Malmö is founded.
• Construction is begun on the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.

Religion

• December 12 - Pope Alexander IV succeeds Pope Innocent IV as the 181st pope.
• The Catholic dogma of purgatory is clarified and so named by the Catholic Church.

Asia

• Battle of Adrianople: The Byzantines defeat Bulgaria.
• The classic Japanese text Kokin Chomonjo is completed.
• The Mongols destroy Nanzhao kingdom in modern Yunnan.
• The Mongols enslave 200,000 Koreans and take them away.

Births

• September 15 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
• Floris V, Count of Holland (d. 1296)
• Zhao Mengfu, Chinese scholar, painter and calligrapher (d. 1322)
• Ren Renfa, Chinese painter

Deaths

• May 21 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
• November 3 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
• December 7 - Pope Innocent IV
• William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (b. 1193)
• Silvester de Everdon, English bishop