1357

Year 1357 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1357

* May 28 - Peter I becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.
* July 9 - Charles Bridge in Prague is founded.
* King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.
* Berdibek succeeds Jani Beg as Khan of the Blue Horde.
* Sikandar I becomes Sultan of Bengal.
* Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (now part of India).
* Influenza is first identified as a disease.
* The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.
* The Blue Horde unseat Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate and appoint their own governor.
* The Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
* In France, the States-General passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.

Births

* April 11 - King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
*"date unknown"
**Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
**Hugo von Montfort, minstrel (d. 1423)
**Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)
**Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

Deaths

*January 18 - Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)
*May 28 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
*July 13 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
*"date unknown"
**Ziauddin Barani, historian and political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate (b. 1285)
**Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde
**Kazerouni, Masoud, Persian physician
**Rao Tida, Rathore ruler of Marwar