- 1360
Year 1360 was a
leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1360
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October 24 - TheTreaty of Brétigny is ratified atCalais , marking the end of the first phase of theHundred Years' War . Under its terms,Edward III gives up his claim to the French throne and releases KingJohn II of France in return for French land, includingCalais &Gascony .
* KingValdemar Atterdag ofDenmark seizes Scania (from1658 a Swedish province).
* Shah Shuja regains rule of the Muzaffarid tribe inPersia after the death of his brother, Shah Mahmud.
*Nawruz Beg overthrows his brotherQulpa as Khan of theBlue Horde .
* Muhammed VI overthrows his brother-in-law,Ismail II , as King ofGrenada (in present-daySpain ); he is in turn overthrown this same year by the former king,Muhammed V .
*Dmitri Konstantinovich is installed as ruler of Vladimir (now in easternRussia ) by the Khan of theWhite Horde .Births
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May 2 - Chu Ti,Yongle Emperor of China (d.1424 )
*July 24 -Nuno Álvares Pereira , Portuguese general
*August 10 -Francesco Zabarella , Italian jurist (d.1417 )
*"date unknown"
**Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (d.1391 )
**Ulrich von Jungingen , German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (d.1410 )
**Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici , founder of the Medici dynasty of Florence (d.1429 )
**Yi Jong Mu , Korean general (d.1425 )
**Parameshvara , Indian mathematician (d.1425 )
**Andrei Rublev , Russian painter (d.1430 )
**Stanislaw of Skarbimierz , Polish religious writer (d.1431 )Deaths
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February 26 -Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March , English military leader (b.1328 )
*December 26 -Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
*"date unknown"
**Geoffrey the Baker , English chronicler
**Isabella of Brienne , Countess of Lecce
**Nicephorus Gregoras , Byzantine historian (b.1295 )
**William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (b.1319 )
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