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Calendar year
Year 1362 (
MCCCLXII ) was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
January 1 – The
Grand Duchy of Lithuania switches
New Year to January 1, before any other country does.
January 16 – The "
Grote Mandrenke "
storm tide strikes the
Netherlands , England, Germany and
Denmark , destroying the Danish settlement of
Rungholt in the
Duchy of Schleswig , and the
Humber estuary port of
Ravenser Odd in England. The
East Frisian island of
Buise is broken into two by
North Sea floods.
February 15 – King
Haakon VI of Norway , son of
Magnus IV of Sweden , proclaims himself king of
Sweden in opposition to his father. However, later in the year, father and son are reconciled and rule Sweden together.
March –
Murad I succeeds his father
Orhan as sultan of the
Ottoman Empire .
April –
Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada , returns to the throne after the murder of the usurper
Muhammed VI .
April 6
April 17 –
Kaunas Castle in Lithuania falls to the
Teutonic Order , after a
month-long siege .
June – Under the terms of the will of Sir
John de Wingfield (died 1361), the church of St. Andrew and a college of priests are founded in
Wingfield, Suffolk , England.
June 22 – An alliance is formed between
England and
Castile .
[2]
July 8 –
Valdemar IV of Denmark defeats the
Hanseatic League in the naval
Battle of Helsingborg .
September 28 –
Pope Urban V succeeds
Pope Innocent VI , as the 200th
pope .
October 13 – The Chancellor of England for the first time opens Parliament with a speech in English.
[3] Under
Edward III of England , the
Pleading in English Act makes
English rather than
Law French the official language in law courts.
[2]
[4]
November –
Lionel of Antwerp , son of King
Edward III of England , is created
Duke of Clarence .
December 21 –
Constantine IV succeeds his cousin,
Constantine III , as
King of Armenia .
Date unknown
Autumn 1362 or
1363 –
Battle of Blue Waters :
Grand Duke of Lithuania
Algirdas defeats the
Tatars , and takes over
Kiev .
Red Turban Rebellions :
Hu Dahai , aide to
Zhu Yuanzhang , is killed by
Miao chieftains in Yanzhou (part of modern-day
Jinhua and
Hangzhou ).
[5]
Chaghan Temur is killed and succeeded by his nephew
Köke Temür .
The
Ottomans capture
Philippopolis (or in 1364, 1371) and
Adrianopole (the modern-day city of
Edirne , or in 1369) from the
Byzantine Empire , reducing its territory to the city of
Constantinople , part of the
Peloponessus , and some islands.
The
Öræfajökull volcano erupts in Iceland, resulting in the destruction of the district of
Litlahérað by flood and
tephra fall.
The
English Hospice of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas is founded in
Rome . It goes on to become the
English College , a centre for training English priests in Rome.
Purported date of the inscription of the
Kensington Runestone , at
Solem, Minnesota .
Births
Deaths
March –
Orhan , Ottoman sultan (b.
1281 )
April 6 –
James I, Count of La Marche , French soldier (b.
1319 )
April 10 –
Maud, Countess of Leicester (b.
1339 )
May 26 –
Louis of Taranto (b.
1320 )
July 11 –
Anna von Schweidnitz , empress of
Charles IV (b.
1339 ) (childbirth)
July 22 –
Louis of Durazzo , Italian soldier (poisoned) (b.
1324 )
September 7 –
Joan of The Tower , Queen consort of king
David II of Scotland (b.
1321 )
September 12 –
Pope Innocent VI (b.
1282 or
1295 )
December 10 –
Frederick III, Duke of Austria , second son of Duke Albert II of Austria (b.
1347 )
December 21 –
Constantine III, King of Armenia (b.
1313 )
date unknown
References
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^
a
b Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 106–108.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
"The slang words that defined the First World War" . Daily Telegraph . October 13, 2014. Archived from
the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2014 .
^
"Statute of Pleading" . Language and Law.org. 1362. Retrieved February 3, 2014 .
^
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b
History of Ming ,
Vol.133
^ Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain & Magdelaine, F. & B. (1981). l'Allemagne Dynastique (in French). Vol. Tome III: Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg. Le Perreux: Alain Giraud. p. 219.
^ Dek, A.W.E. (1970). Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau (in Dutch). Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek. p. 66.