1359

	1359 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:	1356 1357 1358 – 1359 – 1360 1361 1362

Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1359

July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
Murad I (1359–1389) succeeds Orhan I (1326–1359) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, and her husband, Louis of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.
The Second Treaty of London is signed between England and France.
May 25 – The French States-General rejects the Second Treaty of London.
Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as Said as ruler of the Merinid Dynasty in present-day Morocco.
Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control.
The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Algeria.
Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.
Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.
Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as King of Grenada (in present-day Spain).