1355
This article is about the year 1355. For the serial data communications standard, see IEEE 1355.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1320s 1330s 1340s – 1350s – 1360s 1370s 1380s |
| Years: | 1352 1353 1354 – 1355 – 1356 1357 1358 |
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| 1355 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1355 MCCCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2108 |
| Armenian calendar | 804 ԹՎ ՊԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6105 |
| Bengali calendar | 762 |
| Berber calendar | 2305 |
| English Regnal year | 28 Edw. 3 – 29 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1899 |
| Burmese calendar | 717 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6863–6864 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4051 or 3991 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4052 or 3992 |
| Coptic calendar | 1071–1072 |
| Discordian calendar | 2521 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1347–1348 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5115–5116 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1411–1412 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1277–1278 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4456–4457 |
| Holocene calendar | 11355 |
| Igbo calendar | 355–356 |
| Iranian calendar | 733–734 |
| Islamic calendar | 755–756 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunna 4 (文和４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1355 MCCCLV |
| Korean calendar | 3688 |
| Minguo calendar | 557 before ROC 民前557年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1897–1898 |
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Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
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
Deaths
- January 7 – Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered; b. 1325)
- April 18 – Marin Falier, Doge of Venice (executed; 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