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Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
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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.[1]
- 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.[2] With this unexpected death of Erik Magnusson, a previous promise to give Helsingborg to Denmark was reneged on by Magnus IV Eriksson.[3] 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.[3]
- July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander, Gil de Albornoz.[4]
- 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).[5]
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.[6][7]
- 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.[8]
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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 marquis (d. 1409)
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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)[9]
- December 14 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
- date unknown – Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (b. 1300)[10]
References
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