1355
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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1320s 1330s 1340s - 1350s - 1360s 1370s 1380s |
| Years: | 1352 1353 1354 - 1355 - 1356 1357 1358 |
| 1355 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1355 MCCCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2108 |
| Armenian calendar | 804 ԹՎ ՊԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -489 – -488 |
| Berber calendar | 2305 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1899 |
| Burmese calendar | 717 |
| Chinese calendar | 3991/4051-12-18 (甲午年十二月十八日) — to —
3992/4052-11-28(乙未年十一月廿八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1071 – 1072 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1347 – 1348 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5115 – 5116 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1410 – 1411 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1277 – 1278 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4456 – 4457 |
| Holocene calendar | 11355 |
| Iranian calendar | 733 – 734 |
| Islamic calendar | 755 – 756 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3688 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1898 |
Year 1355 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1355
- January 7 - Portuguese king Afonso IV sends three men to kill Ines de Castro, beloved of his son prince Pedro - Pedro revolts and incites a civil war.
- February 10 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
- April - Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.
- April 5 - Charles IV is crowned emperor in Rome.
- April 18 - In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them.
- September 1 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
- A small Scottish and French force invades Northumberland, loots the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeats a small English force in a skirmish at Nisbet, Berwickshire.
[edit] 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
- Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (d. 1415)
- Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
[edit] Deaths
- April 18 - Doge Marin Falier, Italian ruler (executed)
- August 3 - Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
- October 16 - Louis of Sicily
- December 5 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
- Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered)
- Stefan Dusan, Emperor of Serbia
