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Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

January–December

  • March 26 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty picked knights each from the Kingdoms of France and England fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany as part of the War of the Breton Succession; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.
  • April 8 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Taillebourg in Gascony, the French are defeated by the English.
  • May 1 – Zürich joins the Swiss Confederation.

    • Date unknown

  • King Ramathibodi I ascends the throne in Ayutthaya (now Thailand). He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
  • King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
  • Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan succeeds Emperor Sukō, making them the third and fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
  • The Statute of Laborers is enacted by the Parliament of England, to deal with a labor shortage caused by the Black Death.
  • Vantaa, Finland is first mentioned.
  • Firuz Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi.
  • The Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty of China is permanently weakened by an uprising known as the Red Turban Rebellion.
  • The Samma Dynasty in Sindh (now part of Pakistan) breaks away from the Delhi Sultanate.
  • The Turks cross the Dardanelles into Europe for the first time.

    • Births

  • October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
  • November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d.1386)
  • probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)

    • Deaths

  • February 13 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
  • March 20 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
  • March 25
  • Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai
  • Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai
  • May 24 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
  • June 20 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
  • November 15 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria

    • References

    1351 Wikipedia
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