1355
(Redirected from AD 1355)
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 1355 by topic |
|---|
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Art and literature |
| 1355 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1355 MCCCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2108 |
| Armenian calendar | 804 ԹՎ ՊԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6105 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1276–1277 |
| Bengali calendar | 762 |
| Berber calendar | 2305 |
| English Regnal year | 28 Edw. 3 – 29 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1899 |
| Burmese calendar | 717 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6863–6864 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4052 or 3845 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4053 or 3846 |
| Coptic calendar | 1071–1072 |
| Discordian calendar | 2521 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1347–1348 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5115–5116 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1411–1412 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1276–1277 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4455–4456 |
| Holocene calendar | 11355 |
| Igbo calendar | 355–356 |
| Iranian calendar | 733–734 |
| Islamic calendar | 755–756 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunna 4 (文和４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1267–1268 |
| Julian calendar | 1355 MCCCLV |
| Korean calendar | 3688 |
| Minguo calendar | 557 before ROC 民前557年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −113 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1897–1898 |
| 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 |
Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- 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.[1]
- March 16 – Red Turban Rebellions: Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.[2]
- 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.[3]
- May – Red Turban Rebellions: Guo Zixing dies, leaving his forces to the command of his son-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang. Guo's successors are later killed in battle while trying to capture Nanjing.[2]
- August – Battle of Nesbit Moor: The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.[4]
- September 1 – The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.[5]
- October 5–December 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.[6]
Date unknown
[edit]- Battle of Ihtiman: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Bulgarian Empire.
Births
[edit]- 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)
- October 10 – Zhu Biao, eldest son of the Hongwu Emperor and crown prince of the Ming dynasty (d. 1392)[7]
- probable
- Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)[8]
- 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
[edit]- January 7 – Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered) (b. 1325)
- April 17 – Marin Falier, Doge of Venice (b. 1285)
- April 22 – Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)[9]
- May – Guo Zixing, Chinese Red Turban rebel leader[2]
- August 3 – Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
- October 16 – Louis of Sicily
- December 5 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
- December 20 – Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, Emperor of Serbia
- date unknown – Bettina d'Andrea, Italian lawyer and professor
References
[edit]- ^ Brockliss, L. W. B. (2016). The University of Oxford: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924356-3.
- ^ a b c Denis Twitchett (1988). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 42–45. ISBN 978-0-521-24332-2.
- ^ Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
- ^ Dalrymple, Sir David (1819). Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 182-183.
- ^ Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (3 April 2009). "Povijesno područje – Stari grad Visoki". Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ Madden, Mollie Marie (2014). The Black Prince at War: The Anatomy of a Chevauchée (PDF) (PhD thesis). Minnesota: University of Minnesota.
- ^ Taizu Shilu, Vol.26
- ^ "Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395)" [Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ^ Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.