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Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C14 year in topicYear 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit | edit source]January–December
[edit | edit source]- January 14 – Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.[1][2]
- February – Enactments by the Parliament of England:
- The Statute of Labourers deals with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.
- Statute of Provisors prevents the Pope from appointing clergy to English benefices.[3]
- March 4 – The Ayutthaya Kingdom is established by King Uthong (Ramathibodi I) in modern-day Thailand.[4] He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
- March 23 – Firuz Shah Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. At this time, the Samma dynasty in Sindh (part of modern-day Pakistan) breaks away from the Sultanate.
- March 26 – War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty – Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.
- April 1 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. – The French are defeated by the English.[5]
- April 8 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. – The French are defeated by the English.[6]
- May 1 – Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
- November 26 – Emperor Sukō abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.
Date unknown
[edit | edit source]- The Red Turban Rebellions break out in China, leading to permanent weakening of the Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty.
- King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
- The region of Vantaa in Finland is first mentioned (as Helsinge).
Births
[edit | edit source]- October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
- November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
- Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)
- probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- February 13 – Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
- March 20 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
- March 25
- Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai
- Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai
- May 24 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
- June 20 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
- November 15 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Blackstone, William; Stewart, James (1839). The Rights of Persons, According to the Text of Blackstone: Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time. p. 77.
- ↑ The Treason Act 1351 legislation.gov.uk.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Baker, Chris; Phongpaichit, Pasuk (11 May 2017). A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World (Kindle ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
- ↑ Wagner, John A. (2006). "Saintes, Battle of (1351)". Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313327360. p. 275.
- ↑ Rickard, J. (October 3, 2000). "Battle of Taillebourg, 8 April 1351". Military History Encyclopedia on the Web. Retrieved March 26, 2015.