1357

This article is about the year 1357.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1320s  1330s  1340s  – 1350s –  1360s  1370s  1380s
Years:	1354 1355 1356 – 1357 – 1358 1359 1360

1357 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1357 in poetry

1357 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2110
Armenian calendar	806 ԹՎ ՊԶ
Assyrian calendar	6107
Bengali calendar	764
Berber calendar	2307
English Regnal year	30 Edw. 3 – 31 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1901
Burmese calendar	719
Byzantine calendar	6865–6866
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4053 or 3993     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4054 or 3994
Coptic calendar	1073–1074
Discordian calendar	2523
Ethiopian calendar	1349–1350
Hebrew calendar	5117–5118
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1413–1414
- Shaka Samvat	1279–1280
- Kali Yuga	4458–4459
Holocene calendar	11357
Igbo calendar	357–358
Iranian calendar	735–736
Islamic calendar	758–759
Japanese calendar	Enbun 2 (延文２年)
Julian calendar	1357 MCCCLVII
Korean calendar	3690
Minguo calendar	555 before ROC 民前555年
Thai solar calendar	1899–1900

Year 1357 (MCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April 28 – Erik Magnusson is recognized as king of most of Sweden, in opposition to his father, king Magnus.
• May 28 – Peter I becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.
• July 9 – Charles Bridge in Prague is founded.

Date unknown

• King David II of Scotland is released by the English in return for a ransom.
• Berdibek succeeds Jani Beg as Khan of the Blue Horde.
• Sikandar I becomes Sultan of Bengal.
• Rao Kanhadev becomes Rathore ruler of Marwar (now part of India).
• Influenza is first identified as a disease.
• The first public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin is recorded.
• The Blue Horde unseat Ghazan II as the ruler of the Il-Khanate and appoint their own governor.
• The Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat (Famous Wat Yai) Temple is constructed in Phitsanulok, Thailand.
• In France, the States-General passes Étienne Marcel's Great Ordinance in an attempt to impose limits on the monarchy, in particular in fiscal and monetary matters.

Births

• April 11 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
• date unknown
  • Art mac Art MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster (d. 1417)
  • Hugo von Montfort, minstrel (d. 1423)
  • Fang Xiaoru, Confucian scholar (d. 1402)
  • Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism (d. 1419)

Deaths

• January 18 – Maria of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313)
• May 28 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• July 13 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• date unknown
  • Ziauddin Barani, historian and political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate (b. 1285)
  • Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde
  • Kazerouni, Masoud, Persian physician
  • Rao Tida, Rathore ruler of Marwar