1355

From Freepedia

Years: 1352 1353 1354 - 1355 - 1356 1357 1358

Decades: 1320s 1330s 1340s - 1350s - 1360s 1370s 1380s

Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century

Events

• 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
• April - Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois
• April 5 - Charles IV crowned emperor in Rome
• April 18 - In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them
• Scots defeat English at Nisbet, Berwickshire

Births

• January 7 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (died 1397)
• August 16 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
• Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (died 1415)

Deaths

• December 5 - John III, Duke of Brabant (born 1300)
• Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh
• Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered)
• Stefan Dusan, King of Serbia