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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.