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Year 1354 (MCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • Early – year Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures.
  • February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
  • October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.
  • December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.

    • Date unknown

  • Ottoman Turks capture the cities of Kallipolis and Didymoteicho from the Byzantine Empire.
  • The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is established by Fa Ngum.
  • Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.
  • Assassins strike down Sultan Hassan and his body was never returned.

    • Births

  • Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)
  • Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)
  • Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)
  • Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)
  • Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)
  • Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)
  • Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)
  • Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)
  • Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)
  • Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)
  • Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)
  • Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)
  • Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

    • Deaths

  • January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c.1285)
  • August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332)
  • September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)
  • October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c.1313)
  • October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)
  • date unknown – Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)

    • References

    1354 Wikipedia
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