This article is about the year 1355. For the serial data communications standard, see
IEEE 1355 .
Calendar year
Year 1355 (MCCCLV ) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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.[ 1]
March 16 – Red Turban Rebellions : Han Lin'er , a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song , is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou .[ 2]
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.[ 3]
May – Red Turban Rebellions : Guo Zixing dies, leaving his forces to the command of his son-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang . Guo's successors are later killed in battle while trying to capture Nanjing .[ 2]
August – Battle of Nesbit Moor : The Scottish army decisively defeats the English.[ 4]
September 1 – The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia 's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum .[ 5]
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.[ 6]
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^ a b c Denis Twitchett (1988). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1 . Cambridge University Press . pp. 42– 45. ISBN 978-0-521-24332-2 .
^ Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
^ Dalrymple, Sir David (1819). Annals of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable & Co. p. 182-183.
^ Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (3 April 2009). "Povijesno područje – Stari grad Visoki". Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
^ Madden, Mollie Marie (2014). The Black Prince at War: The Anatomy of a Chevauchée (PDF) (PhD thesis). Minnesota: University of Minnesota.
^ Taizu Shilu , Vol.26
^ "Acamapichtli, "Puñado de cañas" (1375-1395)" [Acamapichtli, "Fistful of canes" (1375-1395)]. Arqueologia Mexicana (in Spanish). July 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
^ Panton, James (2011). Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy . Scarecrow Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8108-7497-8 .