1357

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Years: 1354 1355 1356 - 1357 - 1358 1359 1360

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

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

Events

• May 28 - Peter I becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.
• July 9 - Charles Bridge in Prague is founded.
• King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.
• Berdibek succeeds Jani Beg as Khan of the Blue Horde.
• Sikandar I becomes Sultan of Bengal.
• Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (now part of India).
• Influenza is first identified as a disease.
• The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.
• The Blue Horde unseat Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate and appoint their own governor.
• The Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
• In France, the States-General passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.

Births

• April 11 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
• Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
• Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

Deaths

• May 28 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• July 13 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• 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

Fictional Events

• April 4 - In the book and film Timeline, time travellers are transported from New Mexico, 2003 to France in this date.

Lord Oliver (an English noble) rules Castlegard, a French village, in the Dordogne valley. But he is attacked by Arnaut de Cérvole, a French lord. Oliver and English troops begin a retreat at the well-protected castle of La Roque and the battle begins at evening. Castlegard is burnt by Englishmen. Just before of this battle, American time travellers from 1999 (book) or 2003 (film) arrived here: some physics and a team of historians (who had studied the current ruins of Castlegard) were involved in the battle.

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