1355

1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1355th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 355th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 14th century, and the 6th year of the 1350s decade. As of the start of 1355, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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.
• February 10 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 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.
• September 1 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.

• A small Scottish and French force invade Northumberland, loot the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeat a small English force in a skirmish 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)
• Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Deaths

• April 18 – Doge Marin Falier, Italian ruler (executed)
• August 3 – Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
• December 5 – John III, Duke of Brabant (born 1300)
• Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered)
• Stefan Dusan, King of Serbia