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February 2011
1352
1352
Year 1352 (MCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
February 13 – War of the Straits – The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets. The Genoese emerge victorious, as the other fleets withdraw. Musarra Antonio Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo 2020 Editori Laterza Bari and Rome 978-88-581-4072-7 Italian 235–236
June 4 – Glarus joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
June 27 – Zug joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
September 25 – Emperor Go-Kōgon becomes 4th Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 302
October – Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 – Battle of Demotika: Fighting as allies of John VI Kantakouzenos, the Ottoman beylik scores its first victory on European soil, against the Serbs.
November 7 – Corpus Christi College is founded as a College of the University of Cambridge in England, by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.University of Cambridge (6 March 2019). "Notice by the Editor". Cambridge University Reporter. 149 (Special No 5): 1. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
December 18 – Pope Innocent VI succeeds Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope.
December 26 – The Earldom of Kent of the 5th creation in England becomes extinct.
Date unknown
Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan) is probably granted control of Çimpe Castle on the Gallipoli peninsula by Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, the first territory west of the Bosporus held by the Ottoman Empire.Nicolle, David; Hook, Adam. Ottoman Fortifications 1300-1710July 2024 InternetArchiveBot yes . Osprey Publishing, 2010. Accessed 3 Sept 2011.
The Bengal Sultanate is formed after the realms of Satgaon, Lakhnauti and Sonargaon are united under Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah.
Coming from Hungary, the noble Vlach Dragoş becomes the first voivode of Moldova, being seen as the founder of this principality (some scholars place this moment as early as 1345).
Following the death of his father Basarab, Nicholas Alexander becomes voivode of Wallachia, after being co-ruler for about eight years.
The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.
Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.
Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.
The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the Metropolitan of Halych begins to relocate back to Kyiv, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan will hold the title of Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.
After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellions against the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.Bowman, John Stewart, ed. (2000). Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 39. ISBN 978-0231500043. OCLC 51542679.
Earliest surviving illustration of someone wearing spectacles, a fresco in the chapter house of the Dominican convent of San Nicolò, Treviso by Tommaso da Modena (anachronisticallySeptember 2022 There are reports a monk in northern Italy was making and giving away glasses about the time of Hugh of Siant-Cher about 50 years before the painting) depicting Hugh of Saint-Cher.
Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon musical instruments, at the court of Mansa Musa.
Births
May 5 – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)
Elizabeth of Slavonia, Latin empress consort of Constantinople
date unknown
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (d. 1400)
Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430)
Deaths
September 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
December 6 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)Clement VI pope Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VI www.britannica.com 20 August 2022 en
date unknown
Matthias of Arras, French architect (b. 1290)
Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Sicily, regent of Sicily (b. 1298)
William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros (b. 1325)
Basarab I of Wallachia
Al-Hakim II, Caliph of Cairo
Laurence Minot, English poet (b. 1300)
Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod
Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese monk and author (b. 1283)
References