This page relates to the year 1356 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • In China, the insurgent chief Chu Yüan-chang, simple son of peasant and former buddhist monk, takes Nankin with the Yuan, where it establishes his capital.
  • Reign in India of Bukka, king of Vijayanagar (fine in 1377). He sponsors many pandits (well-read men) vedic. The Hindu culture knows a true rebirth.

Europe

  • War between Louis Ier of Hungary and Venice for the domination of the Dalmatie (fine in 1358). The cities of the littoral are put under its protection until Raguse.
  • In Russia, the synod convened by the patriarch Callistos Ier confirms Alexis like métropolite of Kiev, although its pulpit is with Moscow. The patriarch allots to Romain the title métropolite of Lithuania.
  • Beginning of the reign of Erik XII Magnusson (1339 -1359), king of Sweden (fine in 1359). His/her father Magnus Eriksson, in order to ensure its succession, the fact of recognizing as king de Suède ( rex junior ). The Swedish lords succeed in being combined with the young king and the brother-in-law of Magnus, the duke Albrecht de Mecklembourg. Magnus is obliged to share the capacity with his/her son (1356 - 1359).

Saint Worsens

  • January 3rd: The duke Wenceslas of the Brabant and his wife Jeanne of the Brabant must accept, at the time of the “ Joyeuse Entry ” (ceremony of establishment) the consultation of the provincial states for the declaration of war, the conclusion of peace and the lifting of new taxes. The last article lays down the recourse of the “People” to armed resistance if the prince breaks the contract.
  • January 10th: The emperor Charles IV promulgates the Bulle of gold, which fixes the conditions for election at the head of the Saint Worsens:
    • Three ecclesiastical voters (archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne), and four laic voters (the king of Bohemia, the Count Palatine of the the Rhine, the duke of Saxony and the margrave of Brandebourg) brought together with Frankfurt choose the sovereign, crowned with Aachen.
    • the nomination sovereign escapes papacy, but its capacity is tiny room to nothing. The great principalities can preserve the total independence which they acquired and the Voters take care to choose candidates without prestige and authority. This policy involves the retreat of the germanism towards the East and compromises German cohesion.
  • October 18th: Earthquake of Basle of 1356. Basle as approximately 80 castles in the neighborhoods is destroyed.

  • the archbishop of Mainz becomes chancellor of empire.

France

  • March 24th: The States of Language of oc, joined together with Toulouse, vote in their turn, after the General states of Langue of oil the Grande ordinance limiting the royal capacities on the model of the Large English charter of 1215.
  • April 5th: Arrest of Charles the Bad, chief of the aristocratic party. War in Navarre.

    • the Prince Noir pushes back Guyenne the Grandes companies which it had engaged once signed peace with Jean the Good. This last, incompetent to control them, must support their plunderings in Poitou and Berry.
    • Construction of an enclosure joining together the various boroughs of Turns.

Art & culture

  • Cosntruction of the Medersa - Mosque of the Hassan sultan to the Cairo, which occupies a surface of 8.000 m ² (fine in 1362).
  • Guilhem Molinier completes Las Leyes of amor .
  • Querelle enters the Picardy nation and the nation English to the Université of Paris in connection with a student, J. Mast, originating in the Netherlands, asserted by the two nations (1356 - 1358). A commission issues that the Meuse will be used as border between the two nations.
  • Japan: Poetic collection Tsukubashû; poetic theory of the “dependant poems” ( renga ).

Births in 1356

  • Yung-Lo (Ming emperor)

Death in 1356

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