1354

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357
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1354 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2107
Armenian calendar	803 ԹՎ ՊԳ
Assyrian calendar	6104
Balinese saka calendar	1275–1276
Bengali calendar	760–761
Berber calendar	2304
English Regnal year	27  Edw. 3  – 28  Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1898
Burmese calendar	716
Byzantine calendar	6862–6863
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water  Snake) 4051 or 3844     — to — 甲午年 (Wood  Horse) 4052 or 3845
Coptic calendar	1070–1071
Discordian calendar	2520
Ethiopian calendar	1346–1347
Hebrew calendar	5114–5115
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1410–1411
- Shaka Samvat	1275–1276
- Kali Yuga	4454–4455
Holocene calendar	11354
Igbo calendar	354–355
Iranian calendar	732–733
Islamic calendar	754–755
Japanese calendar	Bunna 3 (文和３年)
Javanese calendar	1266–1267
Julian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Korean calendar	3687
Minguo calendar	558 before ROC 民前558年
Nanakshahi calendar	−114
Thai solar calendar	1896–1897
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1480 or 1099 or 327     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1481 or 1100 or 328

Year 1354 ( MCCCLIV ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• Early in the year – Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures. ^[1]
• February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
• March 2 – During the night between 1 and 2 March, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses, along with destroying the neigboring villages and towns in the area. ^[2]
• March - Within a month after the devastating earthquake the Ottomans besieged and captured the town of Gallipoli, making it the first Ottoman stronghold in Europe and the staging area for Ottoman expansion across the Balkans. ^[3]
• October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob. ^[4]
• August 16 – War of the Straits: The Venetian-ruled town of Poreč is sacked by the Genoese under Paganino Doria, who carry off the relics of saints Eleutherius and Maurus of Parentium to Genoa, where they were deposited at the church of San Matteo. ^[5]
• November 4 – War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza. ^[6]
• December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor. ^[7]

Date unknown

• After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes a vassal to Hungarian king Louis I. ^[8]
• Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir. ^[9]

Births

• Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)
• Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)
• Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)
• Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)
• Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)
• Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)
• Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)
• Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)
• Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)
• Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)
• Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)
• Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)
• Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

Deaths

January–March

• January 8 – Charles de La Cerda (b. 1327)
• January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c. 1285)

April–June

• June 1 – Kitabatake Chikafusa, Japanese court noble (b. 1293) ^[10]

July–September

• August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332)
• September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306) ^[11]

October–December

• October 5 – Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290)
• October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313)
• October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)

• date unknown– Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)

References

1. Defrémery & Sanguinetti 1858, pp. 444–445 Vol. 4; Levtzion & Hopkins 2000, p. 303; Dunn 2005, p. 306
2. Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State, pp. 530–537. Rutgers University Press (New Jersey),
3. Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion, 2005. p 31 ISBN   1-4013-0850-3.
4. Ronald G. Musto, Apocalypse in Rome. Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age(Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2003).
5. Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 239–240. ISBN   978-88-581-4072-7.
6. Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 240–241. ISBN   978-88-581-4072-7.
7. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
8. (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003.
9. Retzlaff, Ralph H.; Hasan, Mohibbul. "Kashmir under the Sultans". Journal of the American Oriental Society (4): 46. doi:10.2307/595144. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 595144.
10. Paul Varley. (1995). "Kitabatake Chikafusa", Great Thinkers of the Eastern World, p. 335.
11. Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. OUP USA. p. 255. ISBN   978-0-19-539536-5.