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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 256 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 256 CCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1009 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5006 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 177–178 |
| Bengali calendar | −337 |
| Berber calendar | 1206 |
| Buddhist calendar | 800 |
| Burmese calendar | −382 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5764–5765 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2953 or 2746 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2954 or 2747 |
| Coptic calendar | −28 – −27 |
| Discordian calendar | 1422 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 248–249 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4016–4017 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 312–313 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 177–178 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3356–3357 |
| Holocene calendar | 10256 |
| Iranian calendar | 366 BP – 365 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 377 BH – 376 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 135–136 |
| Julian calendar | 256 CCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 2589 |
| Minguo calendar | 1656 before ROC 民前1656年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1212 |
| Seleucid era | 567/568 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 798–799 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 382 or 1 or −771 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 383 or 2 or −770 |
Year 256 (CCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Claudius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 1009 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 256 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.