1364

Year 1364 (MCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Coat of arms of Philip II of Taranto, who became Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto on September 10, 1364.

1364 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1364 MCCCLXIV
Ab urbe condita	2117
Armenian calendar	813 ԹՎ ՊԺԳ
Assyrian calendar	6114
Balinese saka calendar	1285–1286
Bengali calendar	770–771
Berber calendar	2314
English Regnal year	37 Edw. 3 – 38 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1908
Burmese calendar	726
Byzantine calendar	6872–6873
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4061 or 3854     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4062 or 3855
Coptic calendar	1080–1081
Discordian calendar	2530
Ethiopian calendar	1356–1357
Hebrew calendar	5124–5125
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1420–1421
- Shaka Samvat	1285–1286
- Kali Yuga	4464–4465
Holocene calendar	11364
Igbo calendar	364–365
Iranian calendar	742–743
Islamic calendar	765–766
Japanese calendar	Jōji 3 (貞治３年)
Javanese calendar	1277–1278
Julian calendar	1364 MCCCLXIV
Korean calendar	3697
Minguo calendar	548 before ROC 民前548年
Nanakshahi calendar	−104
Thai solar calendar	1906–1907
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1490 or 1109 or 337     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 1491 or 1110 or 338

Events

January–December

• February 15 – Joint kings Magnus Eriksson and Haakon Magnusson of Sweden are both deposed by noblemen, who instead elect Magnus's nephew Albrekt of Mecklenburg the new king of Sweden.
• February 20 – David II of Scotland marries Margaret Drummond.^[1]
• April 8 – Charles V becomes King of France.^[2]
• May 12 – The Jagiellonian University is founded in Kraków.
• July 28 – Battle of Cascina: Forces of the Republic of Florence, led by Galeotto Malatesta, defeat those of Pisa.
• August 6 – Ignatius Saba I becomes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.^[3]
• September 10 – Philip of Anjou becomes Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto.
• September 29 – Battle of Auray: The Breton War of Succession ends, with the victory of the House of Montfort over Charles of Blois.

Date unknown

• Vladislav I (also known as Vlaicu-Vodă) becomes voivode of Wallachia.
• Bogdana Monastery is built in Moldavia.
• Rana Kshetra Singh succeeds Rana Hamir Singh, as ruler of Mewar (part of modern-day western India).
• Anavema Reddy succeeds Anavota Reddy, as ruler of the Reddy Dynasty in Andhra Pradesh (part of modern-day southern India).
• The Kingdom of Ava is established by Thado Minbya in modern-day northern Burma. Some chronicles and sources however date the event in 1365.

Births

• November 30 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
• December 16 – Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417)
• date unknown
  • al-Maqrizi, Egyptian historian and biographer (d. 1442)
  • Christine de Pizan, French writer (d. 1430)^[4]
  • Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1431)
  • Gyaltsab Je, first throne holder of the Gelug tradition of Buddhism (d. 1432)
  • Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī, Persian mathematician (d. 1436)

Deaths

• April 8 – King John II of France (b. 1319)^[5]
• June 19 – Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)
• June 30 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
• August 5 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (b. 1313)
• September 10 – Robert of Taranto
• September 29 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Alexander, voivode of Wallachia
  • Gajah Mada, prime minister of the Majapahit empire
  • King Valdemar III of Denmark (b. 1314)