1255

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1220s  1230s  1240s  – 1250s –  1260s  1270s  1280s
Years:	1252 1253 1254 – 1255 – 1256 1257 1258

1255 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1255 MCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2008
Armenian calendar	704 ԹՎ ՉԴ
Assyrian calendar	6005
Balinese saka calendar	1176–1177
Bengali calendar	662
Berber calendar	2205
English Regnal year	39 Hen. 3 – 40 Hen. 3
Buddhist calendar	1799
Burmese calendar	617
Byzantine calendar	6763–6764
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3951 or 3891     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3952 or 3892
Coptic calendar	971–972
Discordian calendar	2421
Ethiopian calendar	1247–1248
Hebrew calendar	5015–5016
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1311–1312
- Shaka Samvat	1176–1177
- Kali Yuga	4355–4356
Holocene calendar	11255
Igbo calendar	255–256
Iranian calendar	633–634
Islamic calendar	652–653
Japanese calendar	Kenchō 7 (建長７年)
Javanese calendar	1164–1165
Julian calendar	1255 MCCLV
Korean calendar	3588
Minguo calendar	657 before ROC 民前657年
Nanakshahi calendar	−213
Thai solar calendar	1797–1798
Tibetan calendar	阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1381 or 1000 or 228     — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1382 or 1001 or 229

1255 (MCCLV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1255th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 255th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 13th century, and the 6th year of the 1250s decade. As of the start of 1255, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

Europe

Western Europe

• August – The final Cathar stronghold in southern France falls, eliminating the last refuge of the heretical Cathars after the Roman Catholic Church engaged in a program to crush the sect, starting in 1209 with the Albigensian Crusade.
• The death of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln prompts persecution of Jews in England on accusations of blood libel.
• Lisbon becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.
• The Gothic cathedral at Bourges, France, is completed. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• A survey of royal privileges is conducted, which is included in the Hundred Rolls, an English census seen as a follow up to the Domesday Book completed in 1086; the Hundred Rolls is later completed with two larger surveys in 1274/1275 and 1279/1280.

Central and Eastern Europe

• May – William of Rubruck from Constantinople returns to Cyprus from his missionary journey to convert the Tatars of central and eastern Asia, his efforts having been unsuccessful.
• Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) is founded in Prussia.
• Theodore II Lascaris, Byzantine Emperor (in exile in the Empire of Nicaea), conducts a military campaign to recover Thrace from the Bulgarians. He concludes the task successfully a year later in 1256.
• The Duchy of Bavaria is split into Upper and Lower Bavaria
• The German state of Nassau is divided, not to be reunited until 1806.
• King Béla IV of Hungary grants Banská Bystrica municipal rights of a royal town.

Asia

• Hulagu Khan is dispatched by his brother Möngke Khan to destroy the remaining Muslim states in southwestern Asia.

Births

• Albert I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1308)
• William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros, claimant to the crown of Scotland (died 1317)
• Duccio di Buoninsegna, Sienese painter (died 1319)
• Grand Prince Andrey of Gorodets (approximate date; died 1304)
• Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans (approximate date; died 1298)

Deaths

• May 1 – Walter de Gray, English prelate and statesman
• Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (born 1247)
• Jarler, Archbishop of Sweden
• Sundiata Keita, semi-historical hero and founder of the Mali Empire. (approximate date; born c. 1190)
• Batu Khan, Mongol ruler and founder of the Blue Horde.