1359

Year 1359 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1359

* July 4 - Francesco II Ordelaffi surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
* Murad I (1359-1389) succeeds Orhan I (1326-1359) as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
* Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
* Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, and her husband, Louis of Bavaria, are absolved from excommunication.
* The Second Treaty of London is signed between England and France.
* May 25 - The French States-General rejects the Second Treaty of London.
* Abu Salim Ali II overthrows Muhammad II as Said as ruler of the Merinid Dynasty in present-day Morocco.
* Bogdan I becomes Prince of Moldavia (now Moldova) after freeing it from Hungarian control.
* The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Algeria.
* Shah Mahmud overthrows his brother, Shah Shuja, as leader of the Muzaffarid tribe in Persia.
* Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.
* Ismail II overthrows his uncle, Muhammed V, as King of Grenada (in present-day Spain).

Births

*January 11 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (d. 1393)
*July 15 - Antonio Correr, cardinal (d. 1445)
*"probable" - Owain Glyndŵr, last Welsh Prince of Wales (d. 1416)

Deaths

*June 21 - King Eric XII of Sweden (b. 1339)
*October 10 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1310)
*October 25 - Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293)
*November 13 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscovy (b. 1326)
*November 14 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
*"date unknown" - Orhan, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire