1351

Year 1351 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1351

* March 27 - Battle of the Thirty: Guillaume de Montauban defeats the English.
* May 1 - Zürich joins the Swiss Confederation.
* King Ramathibodi I ascends the throne in Ayutthaya (now Thailand). He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
* King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
* Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan succeeds Emperor Sukō, making them the third and fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders, respectively.
* The Statute of Laborers is enacted by the English Parliament, to deal with a labor shortage caused by the Black Death.
* Vantaa, Finland is first mentioned.
* Firuz Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as Sultan of Delhi.
* The Mongolian-run Yuan Dynasty of China is permanently weakened by an uprising known as the Red Turban Rebellion.
* The Summa Dynasty in Sindh (now part of Pakistan) overthrows the Sumra Dynasty.
* The Turks cross the Dardanelles into Europe for the first time.

Births

* November 1 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (d.1386)
* Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (d. 1381)
* Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
* Wladyslav II Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)

Deaths

* May 24 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. 1297)
* Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi

Ongoing events

* The Black Death (1347-1351)