1362

Year 1362 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1362

* The Venerable English College is first founded.
* January 16 - The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
* Under Edward III, English replaces French as England's national language, for the first time following the Norman Conquest of 1066. [http://languageandlaw.org/TEXTS/STATS/PLEADING.HTM]
* September 28 - Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI as the 200th pope.
* Louis I of Hungary defeats and captures Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria; he conquers northern Bulgaria, extending his control over the Balkans.
* The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole (now the city of Edirne) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.
* Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in a naval battle off Helsingborg.
* Shahabuddin succeeds his brother, Alauddin Ali Sher, as Sultan of Kashmir.
* Constantine VI succeeds his cousin, Constantine V, as King of Armenia.
* Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas crushes the Tatars at the Blue Waters of the Southern Bug.
* Purported date of the inscription of the Kensington Runestone.

Births

*January 16 - Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (d. 1392)
*"date unknown" - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany (d. 1425)
*"probable" - Wang Fu, painter (d. 1416)

Deaths

*April 6 - James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
*April 10 - Maud, Countess of Leicester (b. 1339)
*May 26 - Louis of Taranto (b. 1320)
*July 11 - Anne of Świdnica, empress of Charles IV (b. 1339) (childbirth)
*July 22 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (poisoned) (b. 1324)
*September 12 - Pope Innocent VI
*December 21 - Constantine III, King of Armenia (b. 1313)