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1359
Calendar year
Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 1359 MCCCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2112 |
| Armenian calendar | 808 ԹՎ ՊԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6109 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1280–1281 |
| Bengali calendar | 766 |
| Berber calendar | 2309 |
| English Regnal year | 32 Edw. 3 – 33 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1903 |
| Burmese calendar | 721 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6867–6868 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4056 or 3849 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4057 or 3850 |
| Coptic calendar | 1075–1076 |
| Discordian calendar | 2525 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1351–1352 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5119–5120 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1415–1416 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1280–1281 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4459–4460 |
| Holocene calendar | 11359 |
| Igbo calendar | 359–360 |
| Iranian calendar | 737–738 |
| Islamic calendar | 760–761 |
| Japanese calendar | Enbun 4 (延文４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1271–1272 |
| Julian calendar | 1359 MCCCLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3692 |
| Minguo calendar | 553 before ROC 民前553年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −109 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1901–1902 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1485 or 1104 or 332 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1486 or 1105 or 333 |
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January–December
- May 25 – The French States-General repudiates the terms of the Second Treaty of London, signed earlier in the year between England and France.[1]
- June 21 – Upon the death of Erik Magnusson, his claims to the Swedish throne die with him, and power is restored undivided to his father, King Magnus.[2] With this unexpected death of Erik Magnusson, a previous promise to give Helsingborg to Denmark was reneged on by Magnus IV Eriksson.[3] But Valdemar IV Atterdag was far too ambitious a ruler to have his plan to reassemble the Danish kingdom fall into pieces, and so he proceeded to invade Scania the next year with his mercenary army.[4]
- July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander, Gil de Albornoz.[5]
- August – Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.
- August 23 – Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as Sultan of Granada (in modern-day Spain).
- September – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, and her second husband, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.
- December 19 – The Catalan Courts are held in Cervera, giving birth to the Deputation of the General of Catalonia (Diputació del General de Catalunya), also called Generalitat of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya).[6]
Date unknown
- Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as-Said as ruler of the Marinid dynasty, in modern-day Morocco.
- The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Kingdom of Tlemcen in Algeria.
- Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.
- Ananda Patel (considered common ancestor for most of the modern-day population of Bhadran) moves to Bhadran from Anklav.
- Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
- probable date – Battle of Megara: A Christian coalition defeats a Turkish raider fleet.[7][8]
- earliest possible date – Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (modern-day Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control. He will be ancestor of the House of Bogdan, who will rule Moldavia for more than three centuries.[9]
- January 11 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (d. 1393)
- May 19 - Francesco Novello da Carrara, Italian lord (d. 1406)
- July 15 – Antonio Correr, Spanish cardinal (d. 1445)
- date unknown
- probable – Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)
- Ashikaga Ujimitsu, Japanese warrior, (d. 1398)
- Ibn al-Majdi, Egyptian astronomer (d. 1447)
- Intharacha, Thai king, (d. 1424)
- James Butler, Irish nobleman (d. 1405)
- John III, Count of Armagnac, French count (d. 1391)
- John V, German nobleman (d. 1437)
- John Dinham, English knight (d 1428)
- Niccolò da Uzzano, Italian politician, (d. 1431)
- Sheikh Bedreddin, Ottoman mystic and revolutionary (d. 1420)
- Wang Zhong, Chinese maqruis (d. 1409)
- June 21 – Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden since 1356 (b. 1339)
- October 10 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)
- October 25 – Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)
- November 13 – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)[10]
- December 14 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
- date unknown – Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (b. 1300)[11]
- name="Tout1905">Tout, T. F. (1905). The Political History of England, Volume 3. Longmans, Green And Co. p. 395.
- "Erik Magnusson". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- "Chronology of Sweden". worldtimeline.info. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- "Chronology of Sweden". worldtimeline.info. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- Rendina, Claudio (1994). I capitani di ventura. Rome: Newton Compton.
- Adam J. Kosto (3 May 2001). Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79239-4. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- Luttrell, Anthony (1975). "The Hospitallers at Rhodes, 1306–1421". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 278–313. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.
- Topping, Peter (1975). "The Morea, 1311–1364". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 104–140. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.
- Georgescu, Vlad (1991). The Romanians: A History. Ohio State University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9.
- "Ivan II | Russian prince". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- Axelrod, Alan (2013). Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies. CQ Press. p. 174. ISBN 9781483364674.