1355

This article is about the year 1355. For the serial data communications standard, see IEEE 1355.

1355 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1355 MCCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2108
Armenian calendar	804 ԹՎ ՊԴ
Assyrian calendar	6105
Balinese saka calendar	1276–1277
Bengali calendar	761–762
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 of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 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, 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 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 – 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

• 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) ^[8]

• 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

• 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) ^[10]
• 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

1. Brockliss, L. W. B. (2016). The University of Oxford: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924356-3.
2. 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.