1357

	1357 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1320s 1330s 1340s – 1350s – 1360s 1370s 1380s
Years:	1354 1355 1356 – 1357 – 1358 1359 1360

Year 1357 (MCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1357

May 28 – Peter I becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.
July 9 – Charles Bridge in Prague is founded.
King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.
Berdibek succeeds Jani Beg as Khan of the Blue Horde.
Sikandar I becomes Sultan of Bengal.
Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (now part of India).
Influenza is first identified as a disease.
The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.
The Blue Horde unseat Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate and appoint their own governor.
The Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
In France, the States-General passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.

April 11 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
date unknown
- Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
- Hugo von Montfort, minstrel (d. 1423)
- Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)
- Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

January 18 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)
May 28 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
July 13 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
date unknown
- Ziauddin Barani, historian and political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate (b. 1285)
- Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde
- Kazerouni, Masoud, Persian physician
- Rao Tida, Rathore ruler of Marwar