1351

Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 1351. For other uses, see 1351 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1348 1349 1350 1351 1352 1353 1354

1351 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1351 MCCCLI
Ab urbe condita	2104
Armenian calendar	800 ԹՎ Պ
Assyrian calendar	6101
Balinese saka calendar	1272–1273
Bengali calendar	758
Berber calendar	2301
English Regnal year	24 Edw. 3 – 25 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1895
Burmese calendar	713
Byzantine calendar	6859–6860
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4048 or 3841     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4049 or 3842
Coptic calendar	1067–1068
Discordian calendar	2517
Ethiopian calendar	1343–1344
Hebrew calendar	5111–5112
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1407–1408
- Shaka Samvat	1272–1273
- Kali Yuga	4451–4452
Holocene calendar	11351
Igbo calendar	351–352
Iranian calendar	729–730
Islamic calendar	751–752
Japanese calendar	Kannō 2 (観応２年)
Javanese calendar	1263–1264
Julian calendar	1351 MCCCLI
Korean calendar	3684
Minguo calendar	561 before ROC 民前561年
Nanakshahi calendar	−117
Thai solar calendar	1893–1894
Tibetan calendar	阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1477 or 1096 or 324     — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1478 or 1097 or 325

Events

January–December

• January 14 – Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.^[1][2]
• February – The Statute of Labourers is enacted by the Parliament of England, to deal with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.
• March 4 – The Ayutthaya Kingdom is established by King Uthong (Ramathibodi I) in modern-day Thailand. ^[3] He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
• March 23 – Firuz Shah Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. At this time, the Samma dynasty in Sindh (part of modern-day Pakistan) breaks away from the Sultanate.
• March 26 – War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty – Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.
• April 1 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. – The French are defeated by the English.^[4]
• April 8 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. – The French are defeated by the English.^[5]
• May 1 – Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
• November 26 – Emperor Sukō abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.

Date unknown

• The Red Turban Rebellions break out in China, leading to permanent weakening of the Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty.
• King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
• The region of Vantaa in Finland is first mentioned (as Helsinge).

Births

• October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
• November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
• Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)
• probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)

Deaths

• February 13 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
• March 20 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
• March 25
  • Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai
  • Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai
• May 24 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
• June 20 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
• November 15 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria

References

1. Blackstone, William; Stewart, James (1839). The Rights of Persons, According to the Text of Blackstone: Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time. p. 77.
2. The Treason Act 1351 legislation.gov.uk.
3. Baker, Chris; Phongpaichit, Pasuk (11 May 2017). A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World (Kindle ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
4. Wagner, John A. (2006). "Saintes, Battle of (1351)". Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313327360. p. 275.
5. Rickard, J. (October 3, 2000). "Battle of Taillebourg, 8 April 1351". Military History Encyclopedia on the Web. Retrieved March 26, 2015.