This article is about the year 1360. For the radio frequency, see 1360 AM.
April 14, 1360: King Edward III of England halts his attempt to conquer France the day and asks God's forgiveness after a freak hail storm kills more than 1,000 of his troops and injures thousands of others.
January– The Goryeo Army of Korea launches a counterattack against the invasion by China's Red Turbans, and recaptures Seogyeong only 20 days after it had been lost.
February 19– The French Army relocates to Guillen on the borders of Burgundy and remains for a month.
April 6–Reims campaign: King Edward III and the English troops withdraw from Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon and march toward the English-ruled territory of Brittany, intending to refresh and to make another attempt to attack Paris later in the year. They stop at the gates of Chartres, hoping to provoke the Dauphin of France, Charles, into leading his outnumbered party into battle.
April 13–Reims campaign: On what is later called "Black Monday", a freak hail storm strikes at Chartres, where the English are leading a siege. The unsheltered English troops are caught in a severe thunderstorm, accompanied by a drop in the temperature and huge hailstones began falling from the sky, killing more than 1,000 of the 10,000 English troops and 6,000 horses in half an hour. King Edward concludes that the strom is a sign from God to halt the Reims campaign and to drop all claims to the French throne.
April 14– The day after the Black Monday hailstorm, French emissary Androin de la Roche, the Abbot of Clurry, arrives at the English camp and proposes a peace agreement to end the war between England and France. King Edward begins the withdrawal of his army from the gates of Chartres.
April 18–Jayarjunadeva is proclaimed as the ceremonial King of Nepal, though his actual assumption of office waits until the death of his father, Jayarajadeva, in 1361.
June 14–King Jean II of France, who has been held as a prisoner of war in England since 1356, signs the Treaty of Brétigny at a banquet attended by England's King Edward III, Edward, Prince of Wales, and other French prisoners of war. Under the treaty, King Edward obtains 19 territories on the French mainland in return for renouncing any claims to the French throne, while King Jean obligates France to pay a ransom of 3,000,000 gold écu coins for the release of himself and the other French prisoners, with the condition that he will be allowed to return to France after the first one million écus is paid and send two of his sons to England as hostages, along with more than 40 French citizens.
June 30– King Jean II of France is released from the Tower of London after having been taken as a prisoner of war since 1356, and is feted with a farewell dinner at Eltham Palace, hosted by Queen consort Philippa, then begins his journey back to France.
July 8– King Jean II of France returns to the continent after four years as a prisoner of war in England, landing at Calais, in order to raise the 3,000,000 gold crown ransom owed to England under the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny. To take his place, Jean's son Louis I of Anjou boards the English ship to be held as a hostage in England.
August 10 – Peace is concluded between Sweden and Denmark with the arbitration in Helsingborg. Magnus IV Eriksson cedes the Scanian lands except northern Halland to Denmark. In return, Valdemar IV Atterdag must help Magnus against his domestic enemies.
November 20– King Edward III summons the English Parliament, directing the members of the Lords and Commons to assemble at Westminster on January 24.
December 5– The French franc, worth one livre tournois and consisting of 3.73 grams of gold, is minted for the first time as the franc à cheval after King Jean of France returns from captivity, and is designed initially to paid the ransom of three million gold crowns owed by France to England. The franc will as France's monetary unit for the next 638 years until it is phased out in favor of the euro by the European Community on December 31, 1998.
↑Wagner, John A., ed. (2022). Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life. Greenwood. p.285.
↑"조선 수군, 칠천량 해전에서 대패하다"[The Red Turban Rebellion:Bandits with Red Headscarves Push into Goryeo 1362 (11th year of King Gongmin).] (in Korean). History Net.
↑Karpov, S. P. (2018). "Načalo smuty v Zolotoj Orde i perevorot Navruza" [The Onset of Turmoil in the Golden Horde and the Coup of Navruz]. Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie (Review of the Golden Horde). 6: 528–536.
↑Barthold, Friedrich Wilhelm (1834). Geschichte von Rügen und Pommern. Vol.3. F. Perthes. p.434. Ehe noch der Frieden zu Helsingborg (10. August 1360) diese Umfehe der Dinge und die Billigung derselben und durch Albrecht von Mecklenburg, den Echwager des unwurbigen Schwedenkonigs, zu verburgen sebien, sehen wie die Rathsboten der wendischen Stadte in geipanntze Ermartung bein Valdemar in Kopenhagen. (Even before the Peace of Helsingborg (August 10, 1360)—which was to guarantee this turn of events and its endorsement by Albert of Mecklenburg, the unworthy Swedish king's brother-in-law, could be concluded, we see the envoys of the Wendish towns awaiting Valdemar in Copenhagen in a state of tense anticipation.)
↑Mikael Nordberg, I kung Magnus tid (In the Times of King Magnus) ISBN 91-1-952122-7