1357

Year 1357 (MCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

1357 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2110
Armenian calendar	806 ԹՎ ՊԶ
Assyrian calendar	6107
Balinese saka calendar	1278–1279
Bengali calendar	763–764
Berber calendar	2307
English Regnal year	30 Edw. 3 – 31 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1901
Burmese calendar	719
Byzantine calendar	6865–6866
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4054 or 3847     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4055 or 3848
Coptic calendar	1073–1074
Discordian calendar	2523
Ethiopian calendar	1349–1350
Hebrew calendar	5117–5118
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1413–1414
- Shaka Samvat	1278–1279
- Kali Yuga	4457–4458
Holocene calendar	11357
Igbo calendar	357–358
Iranian calendar	735–736
Islamic calendar	758–759
Japanese calendar	Enbun 2 (延文２年)
Javanese calendar	1269–1270
Julian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Korean calendar	3690
Minguo calendar	555 before ROC 民前555年
Nanakshahi calendar	−111
Thai solar calendar	1899–1900
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1483 or 1102 or 330     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1484 or 1103 or 331

Events

January–December

• February 3 – The Estates General in France meets and passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.^[1]
• April 28 – Erik Magnusson is recognized as king of most of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus.^[2]
• May 28 – Peter I becomes King of Portugal, after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.^[3]
• July 9 – Construction formally begins on Charles Bridge in Prague.^[4]
• July 22 – On the death of Jani Beg, he is succeeded as Khan of the Blue Horde by his son Berdi Beg^[5] who orders the death of at least 12 of his close kinsmen to secure his position.
• October 3 – The Treaty of Berwick ends the Second War of Scottish Independence and King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.^[6]

Date unknown

• The Blue Horde unseats Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate, and appoints their own governor.
• Battle of Bubat: The Sundanese royal family is massacred by the Majapahit Army on the orders of Gajah Mada; the death toll includes Sundanese King Lingga Buana and Princess Dyah Pitaloka Citraresmi, who commits suicide.
• Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (part of modern-day India).^[7]
• Influenza is first identified as a disease.^[8]
• The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.^[9]
• The Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.^[10]

Births

• April 11 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)^[11]
• date unknown
  • Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
  • Hugo von Montfort, Austrian minstrel (d. 1423)
  • Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia (d. 1406)
  • Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)
  • Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

Deaths

• January 18 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)
• May 28 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)^[12]
• July 13 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• date unknown
  • Usman Serajuddin, court scholar of the Bengal Sultanate (b. 1258)^[13]
  • 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