1359

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C14 year in topic Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 25 – The French States-General repudiates the terms of the Second Treaty of London, signed earlier in the year between England and France.<ref>name="Tout1905">Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 21 – Upon the death of Erik Magnusson, his claims to the Swedish throne die with him, and power is restored undivided to his father, King Magnus.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> With this unexpected death of Erik Magnusson, a previous promise to give Helsingborg to Denmark was reneged on by Magnus IV Eriksson.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> But Valdemar IV Atterdag was far too ambitious a ruler to have his plan to reassemble the Danish kingdom fall into pieces, and so he proceeded to invade Scania the next year with his mercenary army.<ref name="auto"/>
• July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander, Gil de Albornoz.<ref>Rendina, Claudio (1994). I capitani di ventura. Rome: Newton Compton.</ref>
• August – Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.
• August 23 – Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as Sultan of Granada (in modern-day Spain).
• September – Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, and her second husband, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.
• December 19 – The Catalan Courts are held in Cervera, giving birth to the Deputation of the General of Catalonia (Diputació del General de Catalunya), also called Generalitat of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya).<ref>Adam J. Kosto (3 May 2001). Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79239-4. Retrieved 19 June 2021.</ref>

Date unknown

• Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as-Said as ruler of the Marinid dynasty, in modern-day Morocco.
• The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Kingdom of Tlemcen in Algeria.
• Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.
• Ananda Patel (considered common ancestor for most of the modern-day population of Bhadran) moves to Bhadran from Anklav.
• Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
• probable date – Battle of Megara: A Christian coalition defeats a Turkish raider fleet.<ref>Luttrell, Anthony (1975). "The Hospitallers at Rhodes, 1306–1421". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 278–313. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.</ref><ref>Topping, Peter (1975). "The Morea, 1311–1364". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 104–140. ISBN 0-299-06670-3.</ref>
• earliest possible date – Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (modern-day Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control. He will be ancestor of the House of Bogdan, who will rule Moldavia for more than three centuries.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• January 11 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (d. 1393)
• May 19 - Francesco Novello da Carrara, Italian lord (d. 1406)
• July 15 – Antonio Correr, Spanish cardinal (d. 1445)
• date unknown
  • probable – Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)
  • Ashikaga Ujimitsu, Japanese warrior, (d. 1398)
  • Ibn al-Majdi, Egyptian astronomer (d. 1447)
  • Intharacha, Thai king, (d. 1424)
  • James Butler, Irish nobleman (d. 1405)
  • John III, Count of Armagnac, French count (d. 1391)
  • John V, German nobleman (d. 1437)
  • John Dinham, English knight (d 1428)
  • Niccolò da Uzzano, Italian politician, (d. 1431)
  • Sheikh Bedreddin, Ottoman mystic and revolutionary (d. 1420)
  • Wang Zhong, Chinese maqruis (d. 1409)

Deaths

• June 21 – Erik Magnusson, king of Sweden since 1356 (b. 1339)
• October 10 – King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)
• October 25 – Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)
• November 13 – Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• December 14 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
• date unknown – Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (b. 1300)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>