1354

1354 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1354; MCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2107
Armenian calendar	803; ԹՎ ՊԳ
Assyrian calendar	6104
Balinese saka calendar	1275–1276
Bengali calendar	760–761
Berber calendar	2304
English Regnal year	27 Edw. 3 – 28 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1898
Burmese calendar	716
Byzantine calendar	6862–6863
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake); 4051 or 3844; — to —; 甲午年 (Wood Horse); 4052 or 3845
Coptic calendar	1070–1071
Discordian calendar	2520
Ethiopian calendar	1346–1347
Hebrew calendar	5114–5115
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1410–1411
- Shaka Samvat	1275–1276
- Kali Yuga	4454–4455
Holocene calendar	11354
Igbo calendar	354–355
Iranian calendar	732–733
Islamic calendar	754–755
Japanese calendar	Bunna 3; (文和３年)
Javanese calendar	1266–1267
Julian calendar	1354; MCCCLIV
Korean calendar	3687
Minguo calendar	558 before ROC; 民前558年
Nanakshahi calendar	−114
Thai solar calendar	1896–1897
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་; (female Water-Snake); 1480 or 1099 or 327; — to —; ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་; (male Wood-Horse); 1481 or 1100 or 328

Year 1354 (MCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 8 – Charles de la Cerda, the Constable of France, the highest of the Grands officiers serving King Jean II, is assassinated in Normandy in the town of L'Aigle on orders of King Carlos II of Navarre.
January 21 – At Heian-kyō (now Kyoto, the Emperor Go-Kōgon is enthroned in Japan as the Northern Emperor, although he had ruled northern Japan since the 1352 after the death of his older brother, the Emperor Sukō. In southern Japan at Tokyo, where Go-Kōgon claims rule as pretender to the Chrysanthemum Throne, the Emperor Go-Murakami is in his 15th year as the recognized ruler of the Empire.
February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
March 2 – A strong earthquake destroys the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses, along with destroying the neighboring villages and towns in the area. Within a month after the devastating earthquake the Ottomans besiege and capture the town, making Gallipoli the first Ottoman stronghold in Europe and the staging area for Ottoman expansion across the Balkans.
March 15 – King Edward III summons the English Parliament, directing them to meet in Westminster on April 28.

April–June

April 6 – The Treaty of Guînes is signed in France between representatives of the kingdoms of England and France, after the dispute between the two kingdoms is mediated by Pope Innocent VI and Cardinal Guy of Boulogne in an effort to end the Hundred Years' War. The "treaty of perpetual peace" is never ratified.
April 10 – Four days after the signing of an agreement to end the Hundred Years War, the armies of England and France fight the Battle of Montmuran in the course of the Breton War of Succession between the House of Montfort (supported by England) and the House of Blois (supported by France).
April 19 – At Srinagar, now in the Jammu and Kashmir state of India, Shihabu'd-Din Shah becomes the new Sultan of Kashmir, succeeding his late father, Alauddin Shah.
April 28 – The 31st parliament of King Edward III opens a three-week session.
May 20 – The English Parliament adjourns after passing multiple acts, and King Edward III gives royal assent to the Liberty of Subject Act 1354, still in force providing that "No person shall be condemned without his answer," an early statement of the right to due process of law, as well as the Lords of Marches of Wales Act (directing that nobles shall be "attendant to the crown of England, and not to the principality of Wales"; and the Exportation of Iron Act ("No iron shall he carried forth of the realm."
June 10 – In Cairo, Sarim al-Din Ibrahim, ruler of the Ramadanid Emirate in what is now the Anatolia region of Turkey, makes a gift of 1,000 horses to the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and is given recognition as the "Emir of the Turkomans". Yinanç, Refet (1988). Dulkadir Beyliği (in Turkish). Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Press. p. 19.
June 22 – The siege of Alghero, located on the island of Sicily, begins as King Pedro IV of Aragon arrives on the island's coast with 100 ships and 12,000 men
June – In what is now Laos, Fa Ngum is crowned as King of Lan Xang at Vientiane.

July–December

August 16 – War of the Straits: The Venetian-ruled town of Poreč is sacked by the Genoese under Paganino Doria, who carry off the relics of saints Eleutherius and Maurus of Parentium to Genoa, where they were deposited at the church of San Matteo.
September 11 – Marino Faliero is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, four days after the death of the Doge Andrea Dandolo.
October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.
November 4 – War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.
November 29 – Sava IV becomes the new Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Christian Church after the September 3 death of the Partriarch Joanikije II.
December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.

Date unknown

After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes a vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.
Early in the year, Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures.

Births

Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)
Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)
Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)
Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)
Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)
Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)
Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)
Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)
Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)
Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)
Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)
Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)
Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

Deaths

October–December

October 5 – Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290)
October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313)
October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)
date unknown – Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)

References

↑ Roland Delachenal, ed. (1910). Les Grandes Chroniques de France: Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V, Tome Premier (1350–1364) [Chronicle of the Reigns of Jean II and of Charles V, first volume]. Librairie Renouard. pp. 37–38.
↑ Isaac Titsingh, ed. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 302-309.
↑ Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State. Rutgers University Press.
↑ Crowley, Roger (2005). 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion Press. p. 31. ISBN 1-4013-0850-3..
↑ Rogers, Clifford (2014) [2000]. War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-0-85115-804-4.
↑ Hasan, Mohibbul (2023). Kashmir Under the Sultans. London: Routledge. pp. 49–52. ISBN 978-1-032-66670-9.
↑ "Acts of the English Parliament from 1354". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives.
↑ Hernández Cardona, Francesc Xavier (2004). Història militar de Catalunya [Military History of Catalonia]. Rafael Dalmau Editorial. p. 150. ISBN 84-232-0655-6.
↑ Savada, Andrea Matles (1995). Laos: a country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 6–8. ISBN 978-0-8444-0832-3.
↑ Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-88-581-4072-7.
↑ Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
↑ Ronald G. Musto, Apocalypse in Rome. Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age(Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2003).
↑ Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-88-581-4072-7.
↑ Purković, Miodrag (1976). Srpski patrijarsi Srednjega veka [Serbian Patriarchs of the Middle Ages]. Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western Europe.
↑ "Prvi patrijarh" (in Serbian).
↑ Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
↑ (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003.
↑ Defrémery & Sanguinetti 1858, pp. 444–445 Vol. 4; Levtzion & Hopkins 2000, p. 303; Dunn 2005, p. 306
↑ Paul Varley. (1995). "Kitabatake Chikafusa", Great Thinkers of the Eastern World, p. 335.
↑ Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. OUP USA. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

[1] Roland Delachenal, ed. (1910). Les Grandes Chroniques de France: Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V, Tome Premier (1350–1364) [Chronicle of the Reigns of Jean II and of Charles V, first volume]. Librairie Renouard. pp. 37–38.

[2] Isaac Titsingh, ed. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 302-309.

[3] Ostrogorsky, George. History of the Byzantine State. Rutgers University Press.

[4] Crowley, Roger (2005). 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion Press. p. 31. ISBN 1-4013-0850-3..

[5] Rogers, Clifford (2014) [2000]. War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-0-85115-804-4.

[6] Hasan, Mohibbul (2023). Kashmir Under the Sultans. London: Routledge. pp. 49–52. ISBN 978-1-032-66670-9.

[7] "Acts of the English Parliament from 1354". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives.

[8] Hernández Cardona, Francesc Xavier (2004). Història militar de Catalunya [Military History of Catalonia]. Rafael Dalmau Editorial. p. 150. ISBN 84-232-0655-6.

[9] Savada, Andrea Matles (1995). Laos: a country study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 6–8. ISBN 978-0-8444-0832-3.

[10] Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-88-581-4072-7.

[11] Villari, Luigi (1911). "Faliero, Marino" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.

[12] Ronald G. Musto, Apocalypse in Rome. Cola di Rienzo and the politics of the New Age(Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2003).

[13] Musarra, Antonio (2020). Il Grifo e il Leone: Genova e Venezia in lotta per il Mediterraneo (in Italian). Bari and Rome: Editori Laterza. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-88-581-4072-7.

[14] Purković, Miodrag (1976). Srpski patrijarsi Srednjega veka [Serbian Patriarchs of the Middle Ages]. Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western Europe.

[15] "Prvi patrijarh" (in Serbian).

[16] Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991

[17] (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003.

[18] Defrémery & Sanguinetti 1858, pp. 444–445 Vol. 4; Levtzion & Hopkins 2000, p. 303; Dunn 2005, p. 306

[19] Paul Varley. (1995). "Kitabatake Chikafusa", Great Thinkers of the Eastern World, p. 335.

[20] Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. OUP USA. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.

Gregorian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2107
Armenian calendar	803 ԹՎ ՊԳ
Assyrian calendar	6104
Balinese saka calendar	1275–1276
Bengali calendar	760–761
Berber calendar	2304
English Regnal year	27 Edw. 3 – 28 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1898
Burmese calendar	716
Byzantine calendar	6862–6863
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4051 or 3844 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4052 or 3845
Coptic calendar	1070–1071
Discordian calendar	2520
Ethiopian calendar	1346–1347
Hebrew calendar	5114–5115
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1410–1411
- Shaka Samvat	1275–1276
- Kali Yuga	4454–4455
Holocene calendar	11354
Igbo calendar	354–355
Iranian calendar	732–733
Islamic calendar	754–755
Japanese calendar	Bunna 3 (文和３年)
Javanese calendar	1266–1267
Julian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Korean calendar	3687
Minguo calendar	558 before ROC 民前558年
Nanakshahi calendar	−114
Thai solar calendar	1896–1897
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1480 or 1099 or 327 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1481 or 1100 or 328

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