1357

1357 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1357; MCCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2110
Armenian calendar	806; ԹՎ ՊԶ
Assyrian calendar	6107
Balinese saka calendar	1278–1279
Bengali calendar	763–764
Berber calendar	2307
English Regnal year	30 Edw. 3 – 31 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1901
Burmese calendar	719
Byzantine calendar	6865–6866
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey); 4054 or 3847; — to —; 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster); 4055 or 3848
Coptic calendar	1073–1074
Discordian calendar	2523
Ethiopian calendar	1349–1350
Hebrew calendar	5117–5118
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1413–1414
- Shaka Samvat	1278–1279
- Kali Yuga	4457–4458
Holocene calendar	11357
Igbo calendar	357–358
Iranian calendar	735–736
Islamic calendar	758–759
Japanese calendar	Enbun 2; (延文２年)
Javanese calendar	1269–1270
Julian calendar	1357; MCCCLVII
Korean calendar	3690
Minguo calendar	555 before ROC; 民前555年
Nanakshahi calendar	−111
Thai solar calendar	1899–1900
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་; (male Fire-Monkey); 1483 or 1102 or 330; — to —; མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Fire-Bird); 1484 or 1103 or 331

Year 1357 (MCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 7 – The Diet of Metz, which had been convened in the French city by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V on November 17, is closed after two months.
February 3 – The Estates General in France meets and passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.
February 15 – King Edward III summons the English Parliament and directs its members to assemble at Westminster on April 17, 1357.
March 16 – Brancaleone Doria of the Republic of Genoa, who will gain control of most of the island of Sardinia, agrees to become a vassal of King Pedro of Aragon, the nominal King of Sardinia, in order to be recognized as owner of the Doria ancestral lands and castles of northern Sardinia, and the lordships of Castelgenovese, Monteleone, Castel Doria, Nucara, Cabuabbbas, Anglona and Bisarcio.
March 21 – ("first day of the third month of the 17th year of the Zhizheng era", the third month corresponding to March 21 to April 19, 1357) The Ispah rebellion by Persian Shia Muslims in Yuan dynasty China begins. Rebels led by Sayf ad-Din and Amir ad-Din take control of the city.
March 23 – Edward the Black Prince, who has been residing in France with his men at English-controlled Bordeaux and is the eldest son of King Edward III of England, concludes a two-year truce with France in order to be able to return home after the Battle of Poitiers.

April–June

April 6 – King Jean II of France, acting from his imprisonment at Bordeaux, overules the Great Ordinance that had been approved on February 3 by the Estates General.
April 17 – The English Parliament assembles at Westminster for a 29-day session.
April 28 – Erik Magnusson is recognized as king of most of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus. The action takes place at a meeting of the Swedish nobility at Jönköping, and Erik is granted control of Finland, Scania, the southern half of Halland, and other parts of the Kingdom of Sweden.
May 17 – The English Parliament adjourns and King Edward III gives royal assent to numerous acts of legislation passed, including a confirmation of the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest, including regulations for the sale and pricing of dogger-fish and for herrings, the Default of Victuallers in London Act, regulations defining the measurement and the contents of a tun (252 wine gallons, now equivalent to 954 liters).
May 24 – Edward the Black Prince returns to London in triumph with his prisoner of war from the Battle of Poitiers, King Jean II of France.
May 28 – King Pedro the Just becomes King of Portugal, after the death of his father, King Afonso the Brave.
June 4 – The War of the Brabantian Succession, a conflict over the successor to the late Jan III of the Duchy of Brabant, comes to an end almost a year after it began on June 15, 1356, when the Peace of Ath is signed between the belligerents after being brokered by Willem III, Count of Hainaut.

July–September

July 9 – Construction formally begins on Charles Bridge in Prague.
July 22 – On the death of Jani Beg, he is succeeded as Khan of the Blue Horde by his son Berdi Beg who orders the death of at least 12 of his close kinsmen to secure his position.
July 26 – (8 Sha'ban 758 AH) A Mamluk assassin attacks Sheikh Al-Omari Al-Nasiri, the chief minister of the Sultan Al-Nasir Hasan of Egypt, and severely injures him with a sword.
August 15 – What is now the Principality of Monaco comes under the control of the Republic of Genoa and the Geonese Doge Simone Boccanegra, upon the death of the Lord Charles of the House of Grimaldi. Boccanegra removes the co-ruler, Antoine Grimaldi, from office.
September 26 – The Scottish Parliament approves the agreement to pay a ransom for the return of King David II.

October–December

October 3 – The Treaty of Berwick ends the Second War of Scottish Independence and King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom of 100,000 marks at a rate of 10,000 marks per year for ten years.
November 6 – Meeting at Scone, the Scottish Parliament votes to ratify the Treaty of Berwick and King David II returns home after 11 years.
November 9 – King Carlos II of Navarre, held prisoner in Paris by King Jean II of France after being arrested on April 5, 1356, is rescued from his cell at the Arleux Castle in an operation by 30 men under the guidance of Jean de Picquigny, Viceroy of Languedoc.
November 21 – (26 Dhu'l-Qa'da 758 AH) Sheikh Al-Omari Al-Nasiri dies from his injuries four months after being wounded by an assassin.
December 15 – King Edward III summons the English Parliament and directs its members to assemble at Westminster on February 5.

Date unknown

The Blue Horde unseats Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate, and appoints their own governor.
Battle of Bubat: The Sundanese royal family is massacred by the Majapahit Army on the orders of Gajah Mada; the death toll includes Sundanese King Lingga Buana and Princess Dyah Pitaloka Citraresmi, who commits suicide.
Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (part of modern-day India).
Influenza is first identified as a disease.
The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.
The Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.

Births

April 11 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
date unknown
- Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
- Hugo von Montfort, Austrian minstrel (d. 1423)
- Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia (d. 1406)
- Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)
- Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

Deaths

January 18 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)
May 28 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
July 13 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
date unknown
- Usman Serajuddin, court scholar of the Bengal Sultanate (b. 1258)
- Ziauddin Barani, historian and political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate (b. 1285)
- Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde
- Kazerouni, Masoud, Persian physician
- Rao Tida, Rathore ruler of Marwar

References

↑ Margue, Michel (2009). "Luxemburg, Metz und das Reich. Die Reichsstadt im Gesichtsfeld Karls IV ( Luxembourg, Metz and the Empire. The Imperial City in the Sight of Charles IV)". In Ulrike Hohensee (ed.). Die Goldene Bulle: Politik – Wahrnehmung – Rezeption [The Golden Bull: Politics – Perception – Reception]. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. pp. 911–912.
↑ Michelet, Jules; Smith, G. H. (1845). History of France: from the earliest period to the present time. Vol. 1. D. Appleton & Co. p. 442.
↑ Fusero, Clemente (1973). I Doria (in Italian). Milan: Deall'Oglio. p. 44.
↑ History of Yuan Dynasty, Volume 45
↑ Walsingham, Thomas (1858–1863). Haydon, Frank Scott (ed.). Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad annum Domini M.CCC.LXCI., a monacho quodam Malmesburiensi exaratum. Rolls Series. Vol. 9. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longsman, and Roberts. p. 227.
↑ Savisky, Serge (2001). Les Valois dans la tourmente : l'ordonnance du 3 mars 1357 [The Valois in Turmoil : The Ordinance of 3 March 1357]. Chamalières: Canope.
↑ Schybergson, Magnus Gottfrid (1903). Finlands historia (in Swedish). Vol. 2. G. W. Edlund. p. 90.
↑ Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-11-840096-1 – via Google Books.
↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1889), "Edward the Black Prince", in Stephen, Leslie (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 17, London: Smith, Elder & Co, p. 95
↑ "Oporto to Photoengraving". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 21. Scholastic Library Publishing. 2004. p. 803. ISBN 978-0-7172-0138-9.
↑ van Bree, Hans (1999). Het aanzien van een millennium. Kroniek van historische gebeurtenissen van de Lage Landen 1000–2000 [The Appearance of a Millennium. Chronicle of Historical Events of the Low Countries 1000–2000] (in Dutch). Utrecht: Uitgeverij Het Spectrum. pp. 28–30. ISBN 9027468443.
↑ Burton, Richard (2003). Prague: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-902669-63-2.
↑ Perrie, Maureen; Lieven, D. C. B.; Suny, Ronald Grigor (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: From early Rus' to 1689. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-521-81227-6.
↑ Al-Harithy, Howyda (1996). The Encyclopaedia of Islam. BRILL. ISBN 9789004106338.
↑ Françoise de Bernardy, Princes of Monaco: The Remarkable History of the Grimaldi Family (Arthur Barker Publishing, 1961)
↑ Thomson, J. Maitland. The Bishops of Scotland. 1912: J. Maclehose and Sons.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
↑ Brown, Keith M. (2004). Tanner, Roland (ed.). Parliament and politics in Scotland, 1235–1560. Edinburgh University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7486-1485-1.
↑ Sumption, Jonathan (1999). Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War. Vol. II. Faber & Faber. pp. 294–295.
↑ Sumption, Jonathan (1999). Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War. Vol. II. Faber & Faber. pp. 294–295.
↑ Bunce, Frederick W. (2006). Royal palaces, residences, and pavilions of India. D.K. Printworld. p. 303. ISBN 978-81-246-0356-7.
↑ Raoult, Didier; Drancourt, Michel (2008). Paleomicrobiology: past human infections. Springer. p. 200. ISBN 978-3-540-75854-9.
↑ The Remarkable Metrological History of Radiocarbon Dating. Vol. 2. DIANE Publishing. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4223-1857-7.
↑ Eliot, Joshua; Bickersteth, Jane (2003). Thailand handbook (2nd ed.). Footprint Travel Guides. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-903471-54-8.
↑ "John I | king of Portugal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
↑ "Afonso IV | king of Portugal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
↑ Abdul Karim (2012). "Shaikh Akhi Sirajuddin Usman (R)". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved October 27, 2026.

[1] Margue, Michel (2009). "Luxemburg, Metz und das Reich. Die Reichsstadt im Gesichtsfeld Karls IV ( Luxembourg, Metz and the Empire. The Imperial City in the Sight of Charles IV)". In Ulrike Hohensee (ed.). Die Goldene Bulle: Politik – Wahrnehmung – Rezeption [The Golden Bull: Politics – Perception – Reception]. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. pp. 911–912.

[2] Michelet, Jules; Smith, G. H. (1845). History of France: from the earliest period to the present time. Vol. 1. D. Appleton & Co. p. 442.

[3] Fusero, Clemente (1973). I Doria (in Italian). Milan: Deall'Oglio. p. 44.

[4] History of Yuan Dynasty, Volume 45

[5] Walsingham, Thomas (1858–1863). Haydon, Frank Scott (ed.). Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad annum Domini M.CCC.LXCI., a monacho quodam Malmesburiensi exaratum. Rolls Series. Vol. 9. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longsman, and Roberts. p. 227.

[6] Savisky, Serge (2001). Les Valois dans la tourmente : l'ordonnance du 3 mars 1357 [The Valois in Turmoil : The Ordinance of 3 March 1357]. Chamalières: Canope.

[7] Schybergson, Magnus Gottfrid (1903). Finlands historia (in Swedish). Vol. 2. G. W. Edlund. p. 90.

[8] Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1972. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-11-840096-1 – via Google Books.

[9] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hunt, William (1889), "Edward the Black Prince", in Stephen, Leslie (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 17, London: Smith, Elder & Co, p. 95

[10] "Oporto to Photoengraving". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 21. Scholastic Library Publishing. 2004. p. 803. ISBN 978-0-7172-0138-9.

[11] van Bree, Hans (1999). Het aanzien van een millennium. Kroniek van historische gebeurtenissen van de Lage Landen 1000–2000 [The Appearance of a Millennium. Chronicle of Historical Events of the Low Countries 1000–2000] (in Dutch). Utrecht: Uitgeverij Het Spectrum. pp. 28–30. ISBN 9027468443.

[12] Burton, Richard (2003). Prague: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-902669-63-2.

[13] Perrie, Maureen; Lieven, D. C. B.; Suny, Ronald Grigor (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: From early Rus' to 1689. Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-521-81227-6.

[14] Al-Harithy, Howyda (1996). The Encyclopaedia of Islam. BRILL. ISBN 9789004106338.

[15] Françoise de Bernardy, Princes of Monaco: The Remarkable History of the Grimaldi Family (Arthur Barker Publishing, 1961)

[16] Thomson, J. Maitland. The Bishops of Scotland. 1912: J. Maclehose and Sons.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

[17] Brown, Keith M. (2004). Tanner, Roland (ed.). Parliament and politics in Scotland, 1235–1560. Edinburgh University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7486-1485-1.

[18] Sumption, Jonathan (1999). Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War. Vol. II. Faber & Faber. pp. 294–295.

[19] Sumption, Jonathan (1999). Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years War. Vol. II. Faber & Faber. pp. 294–295.

[20] Bunce, Frederick W. (2006). Royal palaces, residences, and pavilions of India. D.K. Printworld. p. 303. ISBN 978-81-246-0356-7.

[21] Raoult, Didier; Drancourt, Michel (2008). Paleomicrobiology: past human infections. Springer. p. 200. ISBN 978-3-540-75854-9.

[22] The Remarkable Metrological History of Radiocarbon Dating. Vol. 2. DIANE Publishing. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4223-1857-7.

[23] Eliot, Joshua; Bickersteth, Jane (2003). Thailand handbook (2nd ed.). Footprint Travel Guides. p. 214. ISBN 978-1-903471-54-8.

[24] "John I | king of Portugal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 22, 2018.

[25] "Afonso IV | king of Portugal". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 12, 2021.

[26] Abdul Karim (2012). "Shaikh Akhi Sirajuddin Usman (R)". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved October 27, 2026.

Gregorian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2110
Armenian calendar	806 ԹՎ ՊԶ
Assyrian calendar	6107
Balinese saka calendar	1278–1279
Bengali calendar	763–764
Berber calendar	2307
English Regnal year	30 Edw. 3 – 31 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1901
Burmese calendar	719
Byzantine calendar	6865–6866
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4054 or 3847 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4055 or 3848
Coptic calendar	1073–1074
Discordian calendar	2523
Ethiopian calendar	1349–1350
Hebrew calendar	5117–5118
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1413–1414
- Shaka Samvat	1278–1279
- Kali Yuga	4457–4458
Holocene calendar	11357
Igbo calendar	357–358
Iranian calendar	735–736
Islamic calendar	758–759
Japanese calendar	Enbun 2 (延文２年)
Javanese calendar	1269–1270
Julian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Korean calendar	3690
Minguo calendar	555 before ROC 民前555年
Nanakshahi calendar	−111
Thai solar calendar	1899–1900
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1483 or 1102 or 330 — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 1484 or 1103 or 331

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