Wikipedia / 1355
Wikipedia / 1355
Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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January 6 Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
January 7 King Afonso 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.
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.
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.
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.</onlyinclude>
August Battle of Nesbit Moor: The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.
September 1 The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.
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 (480km) south to Narbonne and back, devastating a wide swathe of French territory.
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.
Births
January 7 Thomas of Woodstock, 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)
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Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)
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 the Elder, Voivode of Wallachia (d. 1418)
Deaths
January 7 Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered) (b. 1325)
April 22 Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)
May Guo Zixing, Chinese Red Turban rebel leader
December 20 Stefan Dušan, Emperor of Serbia
date unknown Bettina d'Andrea, Italian lawyer and professor
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