1355

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.
• 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.
• 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 (480 km) 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, 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)

• probable

  • 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 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)
• May – Guo Zixing, Chinese Red Turban rebel leader
• 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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