1351

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Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 14 – Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act of 1351, defining treason in English law. It is currently one of the earliest statues still in force under English law.
• March 26 – War of the Breton Succession – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.
• April 8 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Taillebourg in Gascony, the French are defeated by the English.^[1]
• May 1 – Zürich joins the Swiss Confederation.

Date unknown

• King Ramathibodi I ascends the throne in Ayutthaya (now Thailand). He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
• King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
• Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan succeeds Emperor Sukō, making them the third and fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
• The Statute of Laborers is enacted by the Parliament of England, to deal with a labor shortage caused by the Black Death.
• Vantaa, Finland is first mentioned.
• Firuz Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq, as Sultan of Delhi.
• The Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty of China is permanently weakened by an uprising, known as the Red Turban Rebellion.
• The Samma Dynasty in Sindh (now part of Pakistan) breaks away from the Delhi Sultanate.
• The Turks cross the Dardanelles into Europe for the first time.

Births

• October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
• November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
• Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)
• probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)

Deaths

• February 13 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
• March 20 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
• March 25
  • Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai
  • Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai
• May 24 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
• June 20 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
• November 15 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria

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