1359
History Portal | Portal Biographies | Current Events | Calendar years
◄ | 13th Century | 14th Century | 15th Century | ► ◄ | 1320er | 1330s | 1340 | 1350s | 1360s | 1370er | 1380er | ► ◄ ◄ | ◄ | 1355 | 1356 | 1357 | 1358 | 1359 | 1360 | 1361 | 1362 | 1363 | ► | ► ►
Heads of State
Year of the Earth- pig己亥(at the beginning of earth - dog戊戌)
Syria: 1670/71 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- June 21: Magnus II of Sweden pulls after the death of his son Erik XII. who ruled from this realm parts back on.
- Rudolf IV of Habsburg tried to get electoral rights.
- Edward III. of England takes the war against France on again; his attempt to leave to conquer Rheims and be crowned there to the French king, fails.
- Berlin is a member of the Hanseatic League.
- First mention of the courtyard, Brienz, Känerkinden and the castle Truba
- Küchmeister and Lietzo'sches Family Scholarship in Zerbst
Born
- Taglung Trashi Peltseg, Tibetan Buddhist clergy († 1424)
- Peder Lykke, Danish archbishop of Lund
- To 1359. Jean III, Count of Armagnac († 1391 )
Died
- 21 June:. Erik XII, King of Sweden (* 1339 )
- October 25: Beatrice of Castile, Queen of Portugal and Princess of Castile (* 1293 )
- Ludolf von Kurland, German bishop of Courland and priest of the Teutonic Order
- By Orhan I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and founder of the Janissaries (* 1281 )