1362

This article is about the year 1362.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1330s  1340s  1350s  – 1360s –  1370s  1380s  1390s
Years:	1359 1360 1361 – 1362 – 1363 1364 1365

1362 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1362 in poetry

1362 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1362 MCCCLXII
Ab urbe condita	2115
Armenian calendar	811 ԹՎ ՊԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6112
Bahá'í calendar	-482–-481
Bengali calendar	769
Berber calendar	2312
English Regnal year	35 Edw. 3 – 36 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1906
Burmese calendar	724
Byzantine calendar	6870–6871
Chinese calendar	辛丑年十二月初五日 (3998/4058-12-5) — to — 壬寅年十二月十五日 (3999/4059-12-15)
Coptic calendar	1078–1079
Ethiopian calendar	1354–1355
Hebrew calendar	5122–5123
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1418–1419
- Shaka Samvat	1284–1285
- Kali Yuga	4463–4464
Holocene calendar	11362
Iranian calendar	740–741
Islamic calendar	763–764
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3695
Minguo calendar	550 before ROC 民前550年
Thai solar calendar	1905

Year 1362 (MCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 16 – The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes the Netherlands, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
• February 15 – King Magnus Eriksson's son Haakon, who is already king of Norway, proclaims himself king of Sweden, in opposition to his father. However, later during the year, father and son are reconciled and rule Sweden together.
• April 6 – At the Battle of Brignais, the Free Companies defeat a French army.
• Junep– Under the terms of the will of Sir John de Wingfield (died 1361), the church of St Andrew and the college of priests are founded in Wingfield, Suffolk.
• April – Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada, returns to the throne after the murder of the usurper Muhammed VI.
• September 28 – Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI as the 200th pope.
• November – Lionel of Antwerp, son of King Edward III of England, is created Duke of Clarence.

Date unknown

• The English Hospice of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas is founded in Rome. It went on to become the English College, a centre for training English priests in Rome.
• Under Edward III, English begins to replace French as England's official national language, when Parliament is addressed in it for the first time following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
• Louis I of Hungary defeats and captures Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria; he conquers northern Bulgaria, extending his control over the Balkans.
• The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole (now the city of Edirne) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.
• Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in a naval battle off Helsingborg.
• Shahabuddin succeeds his brother, Alauddin Ali Sher, as Sultan of Kashmir.
• Constantine VI succeeds his cousin, Constantine V, as King of Armenia.
• Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas defeats the Tatars at the Battle of Blue Waters and takes over Kiev.
• Purported date of the inscription of the Kensington Runestone.
• Eruption of the Öræfajökull volcano in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district of Litlahérað by flood and tephra fall

Births

• January 16 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (d. 1392)
• date unknown – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany (d. 1425)
• probable – Wang Fu, painter (d. 1416)

Deaths

• April 6 – James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
• April 10 – Maud, Countess of Leicester (b. 1339)
• May 26 – Louis of Taranto (b. 1320)
• July 11 – Anna von Schweidnitz, empress of Charles IV (b. 1339) (childbirth)
• July 22 – Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (b. 1324)
• September 12 – Pope Innocent VI
• December 21 – Constantine III, King of Armenia (b. 1313)