1359
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Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
Decades: | 1320s 1330s 1340s - 1350s - 1360s 1370s 1380s |
Years: | 1356 1357 1358 - 1359 - 1360 1361 1362 |
1359 in topic: |
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
Art - Literature - Music - Science |
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
Births - Deaths - Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1359 MCCCLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2112 |
Armenian calendar | 808 ԹՎ ՊԸ |
Bahá'í calendar | -485 – -484 |
Berber calendar | 2309 |
Buddhist calendar | 1903 |
Burmese calendar | 721 |
Chinese calendar | 3995/4055-12-2 (戊戌年十二月初二日) — to —
3996/4056-12-11(己亥年十二月十一日) |
Coptic calendar | 1075 – 1076 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1351 – 1352 |
Hebrew calendar | 5119 – 5120 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1414 – 1415 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1281 – 1282 |
- Kali Yuga | 4460 – 4461 |
Holocene calendar | 11359 |
Iranian calendar | 737 – 738 |
Islamic calendar | 760 – 761 |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 3692 |
Thai solar calendar | 1902 |
Year 1359 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1359
- July 4 - Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- Murad I (1359-1389) succeeds Orhan I (1326-1359) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
- Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, and her husband, Louis of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.
- The Second Treaty of London is signed between England and France.
- May 25 - The French States-General rejects the Second Treaty of London.
- Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as Said as ruler of the Merinid Dynasty in present-day Morocco.
- Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control.
- The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Algeria.
- Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.
- Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.
- Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as King of Grenada (in present-day Spain).
[edit] Births
- January 11 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
- Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)
- Philippa of Lancaster, queen of John I of Portugal (d. 1415)
[edit] Deaths
- October 10 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)
- November 13 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)
- November 14 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
- King Eric XII of Sweden (b. 1339)
- Berdi Beg, khan of the Blue Horde
- Orhan, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire