1354

Year 1354 (MCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357

1354 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2107
Armenian calendar	803 ԹՎ ՊԳ
Assyrian calendar	6104
Balinese saka calendar	1275–1276
Bengali calendar	761
Berber calendar	2304
English Regnal year	27 Edw. 3 – 28 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1898
Burmese calendar	716
Byzantine calendar	6862–6863
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4050 or 3990     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4051 or 3991
Coptic calendar	1070–1071
Discordian calendar	2520
Ethiopian calendar	1346–1347
Hebrew calendar	5114–5115
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1410–1411
- Shaka Samvat	1275–1276
- Kali Yuga	4454–4455
Holocene calendar	11354
Igbo calendar	354–355
Iranian calendar	732–733
Islamic calendar	754–755
Japanese calendar	Bunna 3 (文和３年)
Javanese calendar	1266–1267
Julian calendar	1354 MCCCLIV
Korean calendar	3687
Minguo calendar	558 before ROC 民前558年
Nanakshahi calendar	−114
Thai solar calendar	1896–1897
Tibetan calendar	阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1480 or 1099 or 327     — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1481 or 1100 or 328

Events

January–December

• Early in the year – Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures.
• February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
• March 2 – The Gallipoli earthquake occurs, followed within a month by Turkish capture and settlement (see Fall of Gallipoli).
• October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.
• December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.

Date unknown

• After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada (1330), won against Hungarians by his father, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.
• The Ottoman Turks capture the city of Didymoteicho from the Byzantine Empire.
• The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is established by Fa Ngum.
• Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.
• Assassins strike down Sultan Hassan, and his body is never returned.

Births

• Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)
• Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)
• Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)
• Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)
• Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)
• Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)
• Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)
• Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)
• Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)
• Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)
• Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)
• Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)
• Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

Deaths

January–March

• January 8 – Charles de La Cerda (b. 1327)
• January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c. 1285)

April–June

• June 1 – Kitabatake Chikafusa (b. 1293)

July–September

• August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332)
• September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)[1]

October–December

• October 5 – Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290)
• October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313)
• October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)

• date unknown – Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)

References

1. Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture. OUP USA. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5.