1355
1355
Calendar year
Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
This article is about the year 1355. For the serial data communications standard, see IEEE 1355.
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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 |
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January–December
- 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]
- 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
- Battle of Ihtiman: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Bulgarian Empire.
- 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]
- 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)
- 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]
- 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
- Brockliss, L. W. B. (2016). The University of Oxford: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924356-3.
- 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.
- "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.