1362
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| 1362 by topic |
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| Art and literature |
| 1362 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1362 MCCCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2115 |
| Armenian calendar | 811 ԹՎ ՊԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6112 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1283–1284 |
| Bengali calendar | 769 |
| Berber calendar | 2312 |
| English Regnal year | 35Edw. 3– 36Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1906 |
| Burmese calendar | 724 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6870–6871 |
| Chinese calendar | Tân xấuNăm (MetalOx) 4059 or 3852 — to — Nhâm Dần năm (WaterTiger) 4060 or 3853 |
| Coptic calendar | 1078–1079 |
| Discordian calendar | 2528 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1354–1355 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5122–5123 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| -Vikram Samvat | 1418–1419 |
| -Shaka Samvat | 1283–1284 |
| -Kali Yuga | 4462–4463 |
| Holocene calendar | 11362 |
| Igbo calendar | 362–363 |
| Iranian calendar | 740–741 |
| Islamic calendar | 763–764 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōan2 /Jōji1 ( trinh trị nguyên niên ) |
| Javanese calendar | 1275–1276 |
| Julian calendar | 1362 MCCCLXII |
| Korean calendar | 3695 |
| Minguo calendar | 550 beforeROC Dân trước 550 năm |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −106 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1904–1905 |
| Tibetan calendar | Âm Kim Ngưu năm (female Iron-Ox) 1488 or 1107 or 335 — to — Dương thủy hổ năm (male Water-Tiger) 1489 or 1108 or 336 |
Year1362(MCCCLXII) was acommon year starting on Saturday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.
Events
[edit]January–December
[edit]- January 1– TheGrand Duchy of LithuaniaswitchesNew Yearto January 1, before any other country does.
- January 16– The "Grote Mandrenke"storm tidestrikes theNetherlands,England, Germany andDenmark,destroying the Danish settlement ofRungholtin theDuchy of Schleswig,and theHumberestuary port ofRavenser Oddin England. TheEast Frisian islandofBuiseis broken into two byNorth Seafloods.
- February 15– KingHaakon VI of Norway,son ofMagnus IV of Sweden,proclaims himself king ofSwedenin opposition to his father. However, later in the year, father and son are reconciled and rule Sweden together.
- March–Murad Isucceeds his fatherOrhanas sultan of theOttoman Empire.
- April–Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada,returns to the throne after the murder of the usurperMuhammed VI.
- April 6
- Battle of Brignais:TheFree Companiesdefeat a French army.
- A fire destroys much ofSt Patrick's CathedralinDublin.[1]
- April 17–Kaunas Castlein Lithuania falls to theTeutonic Order,after amonth-long siege.
- June– Under the terms of the will of SirJohn de Wingfield(died 1361), the church of St. Andrew and a college of priests are founded inWingfield, Suffolk,England.
- June 22– An alliance is formed betweenEnglandandCastile.[2]
- July 8–Valdemar IV of Denmarkdefeats theHanseatic Leaguein the navalBattle of Helsingborg.
- September 28–Pope Urban VsucceedsPope Innocent VI,as the 200thpope.
- October 13– The Chancellor of England for the first time opens Parliament with a speech in English.[3]UnderEdward III of England,thePleading in English ActmakesEnglishrather thanLaw Frenchthe official language in law courts.[2][4]
- November–Lionel of Antwerp,son of KingEdward III of England,is createdDuke of Clarence.
- December 21–Constantine IVsucceeds his cousin,Constantine III,asKing of Armenia.
Date unknown
[edit]- Autumn 1362 or1363–Battle of Blue Waters:Grand Duke of LithuaniaAlgirdasdefeats theTatars,and takes overKiev.
- Red Turban Rebellions:Hu Dahai,aide toZhu Yuanzhang,is killed byMiaochieftains in Yanzhou (part of modern-dayJinhuaandHangzhou).[5]Chaghan Temuris killed and succeeded by his nephewKöke Temür.
- TheOttomanscapturePhilippopolis(or in 1364, 1371) andAdrianopole(the modern-day city ofEdirne,or in 1369) from theByzantine Empire,reducing its territory to the city ofConstantinople,part of thePeloponessus,and some islands.
- TheÖræfajökullvolcano erupts in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district ofLitlahéraðby flood andtephrafall.
- TheEnglish Hospiceof the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas is founded inRome.It goes on to become theEnglish College,a centre for training English priests in Rome.
- Purported date of the inscription of theKensington Runestone,atSolem, Minnesota.
Births
[edit]- January 16–Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland(d.1392)
- Empress Xu (Ming dynasty)of China (d.1407)
- probable–Wang Fu,Chinese painter (d.1416)
- date unknown
Deaths
[edit]- March–Orhan,Ottoman sultan (b.1281)
- April 6–James I, Count of La Marche,French soldier (b.1319)
- April 10–Maud, Countess of Leicester(b.1339)
- May 26–Louis of Taranto(b.1320)
- July 11–Anna von Schweidnitz,empress ofCharles IV(b.1339) (childbirth)
- July 22–Louis of Durazzo,Italian soldier (poisoned) (b.1324)
- September 7–Joan of The Tower,Queen consort of kingDavid II of Scotland(b.1321)
- September 12–Pope Innocent VI(b.1282or1295)
- December 10–Frederick III, Duke of Austria,second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (b.1347)
- December 21–Constantine III, King of Armenia(b.1313)
- date unknown
References
[edit]- ^"Fires, Great", inThe Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance,Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p27
- ^abPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History.London: Century Ltd. pp. 106–108.ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
- ^"The slang words that defined the First World War".Daily Telegraph.October 13, 2014. Archived fromthe originalon October 18, 2014.RetrievedOctober 24,2014.
- ^"Statute of Pleading".Language and Law.org. 1362.RetrievedFebruary 3,2014.
- ^abHistory of Ming,Vol.133
- ^Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain & Magdelaine, F. & B. (1981).l'Allemagne Dynastique(in French). Vol. Tome III: Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg. Le Perreux: Alain Giraud. p. 219.
- ^Dek, A.W.E. (1970).Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau(in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.