1355

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

Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357 1358
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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

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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 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

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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

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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

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

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