1359

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s
Years:	1356 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 1362

1359 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1359 MCCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	2112
Armenian calendar	808 ԹՎ ՊԸ
Assyrian calendar	6109
Balinese saka calendar	1280–1281
Bengali calendar	766
Berber calendar	2309
English Regnal year	32 Edw. 3 – 33 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1903
Burmese calendar	721
Byzantine calendar	6867–6868
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4056 or 3849     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4057 or 3850
Coptic calendar	1075–1076
Discordian calendar	2525
Ethiopian calendar	1351–1352
Hebrew calendar	5119–5120
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1415–1416
- Shaka Samvat	1280–1281
- Kali Yuga	4459–4460
Holocene calendar	11359
Igbo calendar	359–360
Iranian calendar	737–738
Islamic calendar	760–761
Japanese calendar	Enbun 4 (延文４年)
Javanese calendar	1271–1272
Julian calendar	1359 MCCCLIX
Korean calendar	3692
Minguo calendar	553 before ROC 民前553年
Nanakshahi calendar	−109
Thai solar calendar	1901–1902
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1485 or 1104 or 332     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1486 or 1105 or 333

Year 1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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.
• 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.
• July 4 – Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander, Gil de Albornoz.
• 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).

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 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.
• 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.

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)
  • John III, Count of Armagnac, French count (d. 1391)
  • John Dinham, English knight (d 1428)
  • Sheikh Bedreddin, Ottoman mystic and revolutionary (d. 1420)
  • Wang Zhong, Chinese maqruis (d. 1409)

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)
• December 14 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
• date unknown – Jeanne de Clisson, French noblewoman and privateer (b. 1300)