1358

Year 1358 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1358

* March 16 - King Haakon VI Magnusson of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the 6th town with city status in the country.
* May 28 - The Jacquerie: A peasant rebellion begin in France during the Hundred Year's War, which consumes the Beauvais and allies with Etienne Marcel's seizure of Paris.
* June 27 - The Republic of Dubrovnik is founded.
* July 10 - Battle of Mello: The Jacquerie rebellion is defeated by a coalition of nobles, led by Charles II of Navarre.
* Estimation: Nanjing in Mongolian China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Hangzhou in Mongolian China. [http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm]
* Mubarazuddin Muhammad, leader of the Arab Muzaffarid tribe, expels the Blue Horde from Il-Khanate territory in Persia. The Muzaffarid then release control of the Il-Khanate after being marched on by the Mongol Jalayirid tribe ruled by Shaikh Uvais. Shaikh Uvais becomes the new Il-Khan. The Il-Khanate is effectively now disbanded and replaced by the Jalayirid dynasty of Persia.
* Shah Shuja overthrows his father, Mubarazuddin Muhammad, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe.
* Mohammed Shah I becomes Bahmani Sultan of Deccan (now part of southern India) after the death of Sultan Aladdin Hassan Bahman Shah.
* Muhammad II as Said becomes ruler of the Merinid Dynasty in present-day Morocco after the assassination of Abu Inan Faris.

Births

* January 20 - Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
* August 24 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
* September 25 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)

Deaths

*January 6 - Gertrude van der Oosten, beguine
*June 7 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
*July 10 - Guillaume Caillet, French peasant revolutionary (executed)
*July 31 - Étienne Marcel, Provost of the merchants of Paris
*August 16 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
*August 22 - Isabella of France, queen of Edward II of England (b. 1295)
*November - Gregory of Rimini, philosopher
*"date unknown"
**Jean Buridan, French philosopher (b. 1300)
**Hasan Gangu, first Bahmani Sultan of Deccan
**Abu Inan Faris, ruler of the Merinid dynasty in Morocco (assassinated)