1355

This article is about the year 1355. For the serial data communications standard, see IEEE 1355.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357 1358

1355 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1355 MCCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2108
Armenian calendar	804 ԹՎ ՊԴ
Assyrian calendar	6105
Balinese saka calendar	1276–1277
Bengali calendar	762
Berber calendar	2305
English Regnal year	28 Edw. 3 – 29 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1899
Burmese calendar	717
Byzantine calendar	6863–6864
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4052 or 3845     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4053 or 3846
Coptic calendar	1071–1072
Discordian calendar	2521
Ethiopian calendar	1347–1348
Hebrew calendar	5115–5116
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1411–1412
- Shaka Samvat	1276–1277
- Kali Yuga	4455–4456
Holocene calendar	11355
Igbo calendar	355–356
Iranian calendar	733–734
Islamic calendar	755–756
Japanese calendar	Bunna 4 (文和４年)
Javanese calendar	1267–1268
Julian calendar	1355 MCCCLV
Korean calendar	3688
Minguo calendar	557 before ROC 民前557年
Nanakshahi calendar	−113
Thai solar calendar	1897–1898
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1481 or 1100 or 328     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1482 or 1101 or 329

Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) 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 Alphonso IV of Portugal sends three men who kill Inês de Castro, beloved of his son Peter, 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.
• 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.
• August – Battle of Nesbit Moor: The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.
• September 1 – The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.
• 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.
• Date unknown – Battle of Ihtiman: The Ottoman Turks defeat the Bulgarian Empire.

Births

• January 7 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1397)
• August 16 – Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (d. 1382)
• probable
  • Acamapichtli, 1st tlatoani (monarch) of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), 1375-1395 (d. 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 I 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)
• 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 Uroš IV Dušan, Emperor of Serbia
• date unknown – Bettina d'Andrea, Italian lawyer and professor