1355

1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1355th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 355th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 14th century, and the 6th year of the 1350s decade. As of the start of 1355, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1320s  1330s  1340s  – 1350s –  1360s  1370s  1380s
Years:	1352 1353 1354 – 1355 – 1356 1357 1358

1355 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1355 MCCCLV
Ab urbe condita	2108
Armenian calendar	804 ԹՎ ՊԴ
Assyrian calendar	6105
Balinese saka calendar	1276–1277
Bengali calendar	762
Berber calendar	2305
English Regnal year	28 Edw. 3 – 29 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1899
Burmese calendar	717
Byzantine calendar	6863–6864
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4051 or 3991     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4052 or 3992
Coptic calendar	1071–1072
Discordian calendar	2521
Ethiopian calendar	1347–1348
Hebrew calendar	5115–5116
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1411–1412
- Shaka Samvat	1276–1277
- Kali Yuga	4455–4456
Holocene calendar	11355
Igbo calendar	355–356
Iranian calendar	733–734
Islamic calendar	755–756
Japanese calendar	Bunna 4 (文和４年)
Javanese calendar	1267–1268
Julian calendar	1355 MCCCLV
Korean calendar	3688
Minguo calendar	557 before ROC 民前557年
Nanakshahi calendar	−113
Thai solar calendar	1897–1898
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1481 or 1100 or 328     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1482 or 1101 or 329

Events

• January 7 – Portuguese king Afonso IV sends three men to kill Ines de Castro, beloved of his son prince Pedro – Pedro revolts and incites a civil war.
• February 10 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• April – Philip of Anjou marries Mary of Naples, daughter of Charles of Valois, duke of Calabria, and Mary of Valois.
• April 5 – Charles IV crowned emperor in Rome.
• April 18 – In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier for conspiring to kill them.
• September 1 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.

• A small Scottish and French force invade Northumberland, loot the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeat a small English force in a skirmish at Nisbet, Berwickshire.

Births

• January 7 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (died 1397)
• August 16 – Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
• Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (died 1415)
• Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Deaths

• April 18 – Doge Marin Falier, Italian ruler (executed)
• August 3 – Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
• December 5 – John III, Duke of Brabant (born 1300)
• Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (murdered)
• Stefan Dusan, King of Serbia