1359
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This article is about the year 1359.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1320s 1330s 1340s – 1350s – 1360s 1370s 1380s |
| Years: | 1356 1357 1358 – 1359 – 1360 1361 1362 |
| 1359 by topic | |
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| 1359 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1359 MCCCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2112 |
| Armenian calendar | 808 ԹՎ ՊԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6109 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -485–-484 |
| Bengali calendar | 766 |
| Berber calendar | 2309 |
| English Regnal year | 32 Edw. 3 – 33 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1903 |
| Burmese calendar | 721 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6867–6868 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月初二日 (3995/4055-12-2) — to —
己亥年十二月十一日(3996/4056-12-11) |
| Coptic calendar | 1075–1076 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1351–1352 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5119–5120 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1415–1416 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1281–1282 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4460–4461 |
| Holocene calendar | 11359 |
| Iranian calendar | 737–738 |
| Islamic calendar | 760–761 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3692 |
| Minguo calendar | 553 before ROC 民前553年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1902 |
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Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- May 25 – The French States-General rejects the Second Treaty of London.
- June 21 – Upon the death of Erik Magnusson, his claims to the Swedish throne die with him and power is restored undivided to his father, king Magnus.
- July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
[edit] Date unknown
- 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.
- 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).
[edit] Births
- January 11 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (d. 1393)
- July 15 – Antonio Correr, cardinal (d. 1445)
- probable – Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)
[edit] Deaths
- June 21 – Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden since 1356 (b. 1339)
- October 10 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)
- October 25 – Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)
- November 13 – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)
- November 14 – Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
- date unknown – Orhan, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
