1256

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1256 (MCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

In other calendar systems, the year 1256 corresponds to:
- Ab urbe condita: 2009
- Armenian calendar: 705
- Assyrian calendar: 6006
- Balinese saka calendar: 1177–1178
- Bengali calendar: 662–663
- Berber calendar: 2206
- English regnal year: 40 Hen. 3 – 41 Hen. 3
- Buddhist calendar: 1800
- Burmese calendar: 618
- Byzantine calendar: 6764–6765
- Chinese calendar: Wood Rabbit years 3953 or 3746, to Fire Dragon years 3954 or 3747
- Coptic calendar: 972–973
- Discordian calendar: 2422
- Ethiopian calendar: 1248–1249
- Hebrew calendar: 5016–5017
- Hindu calendars: Vikram Samvat 1312–1313; Shaka Samvat 1177–1178; Kali Yuga 4356–4357
- Holocene calendar: 11256
- Igbo calendar: 256–257
- Iranian calendar: 634–635
- Islamic calendar: 653–654
- Japanese calendar: Kenchō 8 / Kōgen 1
- Javanese calendar: 1165–1166
- Korean calendar: MCCLV
- Minguo calendar (before ROC): 656
- Nanakshahi calendar: −212
- Thai solar calendar: 1798–1799
- Tibetan calendar: Wood-Hare year 1382 or 1001 or 229 to Fire-Dragon year 1383 or 1002 or 230