Coat of arms of Philip II of Taranto, who became Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto on September 10, 1364.
1364 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1364
MCCCLXIV
Ab urbe condita 2117
Armenian calendar 813
ԹՎ ՊԺԳ
Assyrian calendar 6114
Balinese saka calendar 1285–1286
Bengali calendar 770–771
Berber calendar 2314
English Regnal year 37 Edw. 3 – 38 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar 1908
Burmese calendar 726
Byzantine calendar 6872–6873
Chinese calendar 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4061 or 3854
    — to —
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4062 or 3855
Coptic calendar 1080–1081
Discordian calendar 2530
Ethiopian calendar 1356–1357
Hebrew calendar 5124–5125
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1420–1421
 - Shaka Samvat 1285–1286
 - Kali Yuga 4464–4465
Holocene calendar 11364
Igbo calendar 364–365
Iranian calendar 742–743
Islamic calendar 765–766
Japanese calendar Jōji 3
(貞治３年)
Javanese calendar 1277–1278
Julian calendar 1364
MCCCLXIV
Korean calendar 3697
Minguo calendar 548 before ROC
民前548年
Nanakshahi calendar −104
Thai solar calendar 1906–1907
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Water-Hare)
1490 or 1109 or 337
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dragon)
1491 or 1110 or 338

Year 1364 (MCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

  • February 15 – Joint kings Magnus Eriksson and Haakon Magnusson of Sweden are both deposed by noblemen, who instead elect Magnus's nephew Albrekt of Mecklenburg the new king of Sweden.
  • February 20 – David II of Scotland marries Margaret Drummond.[1]
  • April 8 – Charles V becomes King of France.[2]
  • May 12 – The Jagiellonian University is founded in Kraków.
  • July 28 – Battle of Cascina: Forces of the Republic of Florence, led by Galeotto Malatesta, defeat those of Pisa.
  • August 6 – Ignatius Saba I becomes the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Tur Abdin.[3]
  • September 10 – Philip of Anjou becomes Titular Emperor of Constantinople and Prince of Taranto.
  • September 29 – Battle of Auray: The Breton War of Succession ends, with the victory of the House of Montfort over Charles of Blois.

Date unknown

  • Vladislav I (also known as Vlaicu-Vodă) becomes voivode of Wallachia.
  • Bogdana Monastery is built in Moldavia.
  • Rana Kshetra Singh succeeds Rana Hamir Singh, as ruler of Mewar (part of modern-day western India).
  • Anavema Reddy succeeds Anavota Reddy, as ruler of the Reddy Dynasty in Andhra Pradesh (part of modern-day southern India).
  • The Kingdom of Ava is established by Thado Minbya in modern-day northern Burma. Some chronicles and sources however date the event in 1365.


Births

  • September – Christine de Pizan, French writer (d. c.1430)[4]
  • November 30 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
  • December 16 – Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417)
  • date unknown
    • al-Maqrizi, Egyptian historian and biographer (d. 1442)
    • Gyaltsab Je, first throne holder of the Gelug tradition of Buddhism (d. 1432)
    • Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī, Persian mathematician (d. 1436)

Deaths

  • April 8 – King John II of France (b. 1319)[5]
  • June 19 – Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)
  • June 30 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
  • August 5 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (b. 1313)
  • September 10 – Robert of Taranto
  • September 29 – Charles I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1319)
  • date unknown
    • Nicholas Alexander, voivode of Wallachia
    • Gajah Mada, prime minister of the Majapahit empire
    • King Valdemar III of Denmark (b. 1314)

References

  1. ^ "5 forgotten queens and princesses of Scotland". www.scotsman.com. April 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "Charles V | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  3. ^ Barsoum, Aphrem (2008). The History of Tur Abdin. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. p. 95.
  4. ^ "World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan". www.open.edu. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  5. ^ "John II | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2018.