1355

Year 1355 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1355

* "'January 7 - Portuguese king Afonso IV sends three men to kill Ines de Castro, beloved of his son prince Pedro - Pedro revolts and incites a civil war.
* February 10 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot broke out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals"'

Births

* January 7 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of King Edward III of England (d. 1397)
* August 16 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
*"probable"
**Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine humanist (d. 1415)
**Konrad von Jungingen, 25th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Deaths

*January 7 - Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1325) (murdered)
* April 18 - Doge Marin Falier, Italian ruler (executed)
* August 3 - Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
* October 16 - Louis of Sicily
* December 5 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
*December 20 - Stefan Dusan, Emperor of Serbia