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Events in 1262
| 9 April: |  | The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated Easter Sunday following the first full moon following the spring equinox as described by the Council of Nicaea in 325. |
| 12 April: | | Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days. |
| 28 May: | | Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD. |
| 22 June: |  | Following the Christian conquest of Valencia in 1238, bishop Andreu d' Albalat orders the demolition of an ancient Visigothic cathedral which had been turned into a mosque, and construction of a new cathedral. |
| 20 July: | | The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 660 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent. |
| 22 July: |  | Pope Urban IV makes Ottone Visconti archbishop of Milan, the founder of the Visconti dynasty which ruled the city for the next two centuries. |
| 19 Augustus: | | Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal. |
| 2 October: | | Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night. |
| 26 October: | | Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah. |
People in 1262
Clement IV, Bonaventura, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Béla IV, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, Kublai Khan, Thomas Aquinas, Yves Hélory and Marco Polo celebrated their birthday this year.
Presenting 1262
The year 1262 was a common year starting on a Sunday, just like 1167, 1178, 1189, 1195, 1206, 1217, 1223, 1234, 1245 and 1251 in the century before it and 1273, 1279, 1290, 1301, 1307, 1318, 1329, 1335, 1346 and 1357 in the next.
The coloured days highlight
births
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deaths
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political,
scientific
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artistic
and
other historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays.
The new
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waxing
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full
and
waning
icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
Calculating time
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.
URL: < http://4umi.com/year?1262 >, created 23 January 2011, changed 13 September 2012, served 25 May 2013.-
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