1355

1355 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1355
MCCCLV
Ab urbe condita2108
Armenian calendar804
ԹՎ ՊԴ
Assyrian calendar6105
Balinese saka calendar1276–1277
Bengali calendar761–762
Berber calendar2305
English Regnal year28 Edw. 3 – 29 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1899
Burmese calendar717
Byzantine calendar6863–6864
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4052 or 3845
    — to —
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4053 or 3846
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 calendarཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Horse)
1481 or 1100 or 328
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Sheep)
1482 or 1101 or 329

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

Events

  • January 6Charles 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, mistress of his son Pedro, 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 5Charles 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 5December 2Hundred 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 but suffer heavy losses and do not return to Bulgarian territory for around 15 years.[7]

Births

  • probable
    • Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)[9]
    • 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. ^ Brockliss, L. W. B. (2016). The University of Oxford: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924356-3.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
  4. ^ Dalrymple, Sir David (1819). Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 182-183.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Madden, Mollie Marie (2014). The Black Prince at War: The Anatomy of a Chevauchée (PDF) (PhD thesis). Minnesota: University of Minnesota.
  7. ^ Asenov, Veselin (March 19, 2018). "Michael Asen IV and Ivan Asen IV - the forgotten heroes". Bulgarian History (in Bulgarian).
  8. ^ Taizu Shilu, Vol.26
  9. ^ "Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395)" [Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  10. ^ Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy. Scarecrow Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8.