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Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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.Brockliss, L. W. B. (2016). The University of Oxford: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924356-3.
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.Denis Twitchett The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C 1988 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-24332-2 42–45
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.Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
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.Dalrymple, Sir David (1819). Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 182-183.
September 1 – The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.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.
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.Madden, Mollie Marie (2014). The Black Prince at War: The Anatomy of a Chevauchée (PDF) (PhD thesis). Minnesota: University of Minnesota.
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.Asenov Veselin Michael Asen IV and Ivan Asen IV - the forgotten heroes Bulgarian https://bulgarianhistory.org/mihail-asen-ivan-asen-zabraveni-geroi/ Bulgarian History 2018-03-19
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)Taizu Shilu, Vol.26
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Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 1395)https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/acamapichtli-punado-de-canas-1375-1395 Arqueologia Mexicana Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395) July 2016 June 3, 2019 es Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)
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 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)Panton James Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7497-8 173 https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA173 en
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 Dušan, Emperor of Serbia
date unknown – Bettina d'Andrea, Italian lawyer and professor
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