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Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • 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 II of Taranto marries Maria of Calabria, daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.
  • April 5 – Charles IV is crowned 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: Scottish army decisively defeats the English.
  • September 1 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.

    • Date unknown

  • Ottoman Turks defeat Bulgarian Empire in the Battle of Ihtiman.

    • 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
  • probable
  • Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (d. 1415)
  • Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
  • Gemistus Pletho, Greek scholar
  • Foelke Kampana, Frisian lady and regent (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)
  • 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

    • References

    1355 Wikipedia
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