Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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January–December

• January 14 Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.

February Enactments by the Parliament of England:

• The Statute of Labourers deals with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.

• Statute of Provisors prevents the Pope from appointing clergy to English benefices.

• March 4 The Ayutthaya Kingdom is established by King Uthong (Ramathibodi I) in modern-day Thailand. He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.

• March 23 Firuz Shah Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. At this time, the Samma dynasty in Sindh (part of modern-day Pakistan) breaks away from the Sultanate.

• March 26 War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.

• April 1 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. The French are defeated by the English.

• April 8 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. The French are defeated by the English.

• May 1 Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.

• November 26 Emperor Sukō abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.

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• The Red Turban Rebellions break out in China, leading to permanent weakening of the Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty.

• King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.

• The region of Vantaa in Finland is first mentioned (as Helsinge).</onlyinclude>

Births

• October 16 Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)

• November 1 Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)

• Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)

• probable Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)

Deaths

• February 13 Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general

• March 20 Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi

March 25

• Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai

• Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai

• May 24 Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)

• June 20 Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)

• November 15 Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria

References