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==== Asia ====
* [[April 21]] &ndash; City of [[Launggyet]] in [[Arakan]] (modern-day Burma) is founded according to some sources.<ref>''[[Rakhine Razawin Thit]]''.</ref>
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Möngke Khan]] is elected as the fourth [[great Khan]] of the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgpRDAAAQBAJ&q=1251+M%C3%B6ngke+Khan&pg=PA90|title=The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran|last=De Nicola|first=Bruno|publisher=BRILL|year=2016|isbn=9789004314726|editor-last=De Nicola|editor-first=Bruno|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=89|language=en|chapter=The Economic Role of Mongol Women: Continuity and Transformation from Mongolia to Iran|editor-last2=Melville|editor-first2=Charles}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jjvBQAAQBAJ&q=1251+M%C3%B6ngke+Khan&pg=PA144|title=A History of War in 100 Battles|last=Overy|first=R. J.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=9780199390717|location=Oxford and New York|pages=144|language=en}}</ref>
* The carving of the ''[[Tripitaka Koreana]]'', a collection of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[scriptures]] recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, is completed.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iB8R0oEH3kEC&q=1251+Tripitaka+Koreana&pg=PA139|title=The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|last1=Kang|first1=Chae-ŏn|last2=Kang|first2=Jae-eun|publisher=Homa & Sekey Books|year=2006|isbn=9781931907378|location=Paramus, NJ|pages=139|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3z1OjL4KY0C&q=1251+Tripitaka+Koreana&pg=PA157|title=Korea and Globalization: Politics, Economics and Culture|last=Jong-myung|first=Kim|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9781136859786|editor-last=Lewis|editor-first=James B.|location=New York and London|pages=157|language=en|chapter=The Tripitạka Koreana: Its Computerization and Significance for the Cultural Sciences in a Modern Globalized World|editor-last2=Sesay|editor-first2=Amadu}}</ref></onlyinclude>