Year 1354 ( MCCCLIV) was a

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Events

January–December

* Early in the year –

Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...

returns from his travels at the command of

Abu Inan Faris Abu Inan Faris (1329 – 10 January 1358) ( ar, أبو عنان فارس بن علي) was a Marinid ruler of Morocco. He succeeded his father Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman in 1348. He extended his rule over Tlemcen and Ifriqiya, which covered th ...

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, who appoints a

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to write an account of the adventures. *

February 12 Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under ...

– The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the

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and

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March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...

– The Gallipoli earthquake occurs, followed within a month by Turkish capture and settlement, the

Fall of Gallipoli The Fall of Gallipoli ( tr, , lit=Conquest of Gelibolu) was the siege and capture of the Gallipoli fortress and peninsula, by the Ottoman Turks, in March 1354. After suffering a half-century of defeats at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantine ...

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October 8 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. * 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. * 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger preven ...

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Cola di Rienzo Nicola Gabrini (1313 8 October 1354), commonly known as Cola di Rienzo () or Rienzi, was an Italian politician and leader, who styled himself as the "tribune of the Roman people". Having advocated for the abolition of temporal papal power a ...

, self-proclaimed "

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" of

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, is killed by an

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December 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköpi ...

– The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.

Date unknown

* After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada (1330), won against Hungarians by his father, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes vassal to Hungarian king Louis I of Hungary, Louis I. * The Ottoman Turks capture the city of Didymoteicho from the Byzantine Empire. * Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir. * Assassins strike down Sultan Hassan, and his body is never returned.

Births

* Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394) * Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, ''infante'' of Portugal (d. c.1397) * Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429) * Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417) * Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421) * Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435) * Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418) * Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416) * Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12) * Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387) * Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412) * Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386) * Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

Deaths

January–March

* January 8 – Charles de La Cerda (b. 1327) * January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c. 1285)

April–June

* June 1 – Kitabatake Chikafusa (b. 1293)

July–September

* August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332) * September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)

October–December

* October 5 – Giovanni Visconti (archbishop of Milan), Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290) *

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, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313) * October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318) * ''date unknown'' – Wu Zhen (painter), Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)

References

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