1355

'Years:' 1352 1353 1354 - 1355 - 1356 1357 1358

'Decades:' 1320s 1330s 1340s - '1350s' - 1360s 1370s 1380s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January 7 - Portuguese king Afonso IV sends three men to kill Ines de Castro, beloved of his son prince Pedro - Pedro revolts and incites a civil war.

★ February 10 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

★ April - Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.

★ April 5 - Charles IV crowned emperor in Rome.

★ April 18 - In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them.

★ September 1 - Tvrtko I writes ''in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum'' from old town Visoki.

★ A small Scottish and French force invade Northumberland, loot the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeat a small English force in a skirmish at Nisbet, Berwickshire.

Births

★ January 7 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (died 1397)

★ August 16 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster

★ Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (died 1415)

★ Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Deaths

★ April 18 - Doge Marin Falier, Italian ruler (executed)

★ August 3 - Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh

★ December 5 - John III, Duke of Brabant (born 1300)

★ Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered)

★ Stefan Dusan, Emperor of Serbia