1355

Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1355 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1355
MCCCLV
Ab urbe condita2108
Armenian calendar804
ԹՎ ՊԴ
Assyrian calendar6105
Balinese saka calendar1276–1277
Bengali calendar762
Berber calendar2305
English Regnal year28 Edw. 3  29 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1899
Burmese calendar717
Byzantine calendar6863–6864
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4051 or 3991
     to 
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4052 or 3992
Coptic calendar1071–1072
Discordian calendar2521
Ethiopian calendar1347–1348
Hebrew calendar5115–5116
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1411–1412
 - Shaka Samvat1276–1277
 - Kali Yuga4455–4456
Holocene calendar11355
Igbo calendar355–356
Iranian calendar733–734
Islamic calendar755–756
Japanese calendarBunna 4
(文和4年)
Javanese calendar1267–1268
Julian calendar1355
MCCCLV
Korean calendar3688
Minguo calendar557 before ROC
民前557年
Nanakshahi calendar−113
Thai solar calendar1897–1898
Tibetan calendar阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1481 or 1100 or 328
     to 
阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1482 or 1101 or 329

Events

  • January 6 Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
  • January 7 King Alphonso IV of Portugal sends three men who kill Inês de Castro, beloved of his son Peter, who revolts and incites a civil war.
  • February 10 St Scholastica Day riot in Oxford, England, breaks out, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
  • April Philip II, Prince of Taranto, marries Maria of Calabria, daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria, and Marie of Valois.
  • April 5 Charles IV is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
  • April 18 In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier, for conspiring to kill them.
  • August Battle of Nesbit Moor: The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.
  • September 1 The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.
  • October 5December 2 Hundred Years' War: Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355: A large mounted Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward the Black Prince marches from Bordeaux in English-held Gascony 300 miles (480 km) south to Narbonne and back, devastating a wide swathe of French territory.
  • Date unknown Battle of Ihtiman: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Bulgarian Empire.

Births

  • January 7 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1397)
  • August 16 Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (d. 1382)
  • probable
    • Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)[1]
    • Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (d. 1415)
    • Konrad von Jungingen, German 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
    • Gemistus Pletho, Greek scholar
    • Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (d. 1418)
    • Mircea I of Wallachia (d. 1418)

Deaths

References

  1. "Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395)" [Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  2. Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.
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