1362

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s – 1360s – 1370s 1380s 1390s
Years:	1359 1360 1361 – 1362 – 1363 1364 1365

1362 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1362 (MCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1362

The English Hospice of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas was founded in Rome. It went on to become the English College, a centre for training English priests in Rome.
January 16 – The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
Under Edward III, English begins to replace French as England's official national language, when Parliament is addressed in it for the first time following the Norman Conquest of 1066.[1]
September 28 – Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI as the 200th pope.
Louis I of Hungary defeats and captures Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria; he conquers northern Bulgaria, extending his control over the Balkans.
The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole (now the city of Edirne) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.
Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in a naval battle off Helsingborg.
Shahabuddin succeeds his brother, Alauddin Ali Sher, as Sultan of Kashmir.
Constantine VI succeeds his cousin, Constantine V, as King of Armenia.
Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas defeats the Tatars at the Battle of Blue Waters and takes over Kiev.
Purported date of the inscription of the Kensington Runestone.
Eruption of the Öræfajökull volcano in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district of Litlahérað by flood and tephra fall
Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada starts to rule.