1351
Calendar year
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Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
JanuaryâDecember
- January 14 â Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.[1][2]
- February â 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 â 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 â 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 â War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty â 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 â Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. â The French are defeated by the English.[5]
- April 8 â Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. â The French are defeated by the English.[6]
- May 1 â Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
- November 26 â Emperor SukÅ abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.
Date unknown
- 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
- October 16 â Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
- November 1 â Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
- Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)
- probable â WÅadysÅaw II JagieÅÅo, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)
Deaths
- February 13 â KÅ no Morofuyu, Japanese general
- March 20 â Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
- March 25
- KÅ no Moronao, Japanese samurai
- KÅ no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai
- May 24 â Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
- June 20 â Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
- November 15 â Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austria