1356

1356 (MCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1356th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 356th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 14th century, and the 7th year of the 1350s decade. As of the start of 1356, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1356 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1356 MCCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	2109
Armenian calendar	805 ԹՎ ՊԵ
Assyrian calendar	6106
Balinese saka calendar	1277–1278
Bengali calendar	763
Berber calendar	2306
English Regnal year	29 Edw. 3 – 30 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1900
Burmese calendar	718
Byzantine calendar	6864–6865
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4052 or 3992     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4053 or 3993
Coptic calendar	1072–1073
Discordian calendar	2522
Ethiopian calendar	1348–1349
Hebrew calendar	5116–5117
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1412–1413
- Shaka Samvat	1277–1278
- Kali Yuga	4456–4457
Holocene calendar	11356
Igbo calendar	356–357
Iranian calendar	734–735
Islamic calendar	756–758
Japanese calendar	Bunna 5 / Enbun 1 (延文元年)
Javanese calendar	1268–1269
Julian calendar	1356 MCCCLVI
Korean calendar	3689
Minguo calendar	556 before ROC 民前556年
Nanakshahi calendar	−112
Thai solar calendar	1898–1899
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1482 or 1101 or 329     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1483 or 1102 or 330

Events

• January 20 – Edward Balliol quits job as King of Scotland and gives job to Edward III of England
• September 19 – Battle of Poitiers The English, led by the Black Prince, beat the French in the Hundred Years' War, taking the King John II of France while winning.
• October 18 – The Basel earthquake breaks the city of Basel in Switzerland.
• December 25 – Emperor Charles IV. announces the Golden Bull, a sort of medieval constitution for the Holy Roman Empire
• The city of Lwów granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III of Poland
• The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza's limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build fortresses and mosques in the nearby city of Cairo, leaving the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the step-stone condition in which it remains today.
• Burnt Candlemas – Edward III of England burns down every town and village in Lothian, Scotland.
• The official founding of the Hanseatic League, a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe.
• Ghazan II takes Anusirvan's job as ruler of the Il-Khanate in Persia.

Births

• King Martin I of Aragon (died 1410)

Deaths

• September 19 – Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
  • Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1311)
  • Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)