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1356
1355
<catset>Category="1356"</catset><right><p><table cellpadding=3 style="margin-left: 15px;"><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b>Years:</b></small><br><a href="1353">1353</a> <a href="1354">1354</a> <a href="1355">1355</a> - 1356 - <a href="1357">1357</a> <a href="1358">1358</a> <a href="1359">1359</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b><a href="List of decades">Decades</a>:</b></small><br><a href="1320s">1320s</a> <a href="1330s">1330s</a> <a href="1340s">1340s</a> - <b><a href="1350s">1350s</a></b> - <a href="1360s">1360s</a> <a href="1370s">1370s</a> <a href="1380s">1380s</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center><small><b><a href="Centuries">Centuries</a>:</b></small><br><a href="13th century">13th century</a> - <b><a href="14th century">14th century</a></b> - <a href="15th century">15th century</a></td></tr></table><p></right> <h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Events</h2><ul> <li><a href="January 20">January 20</a> - <a href="Edward Balliol">Edward Balliol</a> surrenders title as King of <a href="Scotland">Scotland</a> to <a href="Edward III of England">Edward III of England</a> <li><a href="April 16">April 16</a> - the King of the <a href="History of Serbia">Serbian Kingdom</a> of <a href="Raska">Ra&#353;ka</a> <a href="Stefan Dusan">Stefan Du&#353;an</a> is proclaimed <i>Tsar</i> (Emperor) <i>of all <a href="Serbs">Serbs</a>, <a href="Albanians">Arbanasses</a> and <a href="Greeks">Greeks</a></i> in <a href="Skopje">Skopje</a> by the Serbian Orthodox Christian <a href="Patriarch">Patriarch</a> of a large <a href="Balkans">Balkan</a> Serbian Empire <li><a href="September 19">September 19</a> - <a href="Battle of Poitiers">Battle of Poitiers</a> The English defeat the French in the <a href="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>, capturing the King <a href="John II of France">John II of France</a> in the process. <li><a href="December 25">December 25</a> - <a href="Emperor">Emperor</a> <a href="Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles IV.</a> promulgates the <a href="Golden Bull">Golden Bull</a>, a sort of medieval <a href="Constitution">Constitution</a> for the <a href="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> <li> The city of <a href="Lviv">Lwów</a> granted <a href="Magdeburg rights">Magdeburg rights</a> by <a href="Casimir III of Poland">Casimir the Great</a> <li> The city of <a href="Basel">Basle</a> in <a href="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> is destroyed by an earthquake. <li> Tragically, the majority of the <a href="Great Pyramid of Giza">Great Pyramid of Giza</a>'s limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build <a href="Fortification">fortresses</a> and <a href="Mosque">mosques</a> in the nearby city of <a href="Cairo">Cairo</a>, leaving the first of the <a href="Seven Wonders of the World">Seven Wonders of the Ancient World</a> in the step-stone condition in which it remains today. </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Births</h2><ul> <li>King <a href="Martin I of Aragon">Martin I of Aragon</a> (died <a href="1410">1410</a>) </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Deaths</h2><ul> <li><a href="September 19">September 19</a> - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers: <ul> <li><a href="Peter I, Duke of Bourbon">Peter I, Duke of Bourbon</a> (born <a href="1311">1311</a>) <li><a href="Walter VI of Brienne">Walter VI of Brienne</a>, Constable of France (born <a href="1304">1304</a>) </ul> </ul>