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Year 1352 (MCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[]

January–December[]

• June 4 – Glarus joins the Swiss Confederation.
• June 27 – Zug joins the Swiss Confederation.
• October – Byzantine civil war of 1352–57: Battle of Demotika – Fighting as allies of John VI Kantakouzenos, the Ottoman beylik scores its first victory on European soil, against the Serbs.
• December 18 – Pope Innocent VI succeeds Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope.

Date unknown[]

• Süleyman Pasha, the son of the Ottoman bey, crosses the Bosphorus and seizes Çimpe Castle on the Gallipoli Peninsula, the first European territory held by the Ottoman Empire.^[1]
• The Sultanate of Bengal is formed after the realms of Satgaon, Lakhnauti and Sonargaon are united under Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah.
• Coming from Hungary, the noble Vlach Dragoş becomes the first voivode of Moldova, being seen as the founder of this principality (some scholars place this moment as early as 1345).
• Following the death of his father Basarab, Nicholas Alexander becomes voivode of Wallachia, after being co-ruler for about eight years.
• The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.
• Corpus Christi College is founded as a College of the University of Cambridge, by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.
• The Earldom of Kent in England becomes extinct.
• The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the Metropolitan of Halych begins to relocate back to Kiev, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan will hold the title of Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.
• After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellion against the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.
• Earliest surviving illustration of someone wearing spectacles, a fresco in the chapter house of the Dominican convent of San Nicolò, Treviso by Tommaso da Modena (anachronistically) depicting Hugh of Saint-Cher.^[2]
• Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon musical instruments, at the court of Mansa Musa.

Births[]

• May 5 – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)
• Elizabeth of Slavonia, Latin empress consort of Constantinople
• date unknown
  • John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (d. 1400)
  • Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430)

Deaths[]

• September 15 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
• December 6 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
• date unknown
  • Matthias of Arras, French architect (b. 1290)
  • Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Sicily, regent of Sicily (b. 1298)
  • William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros (b. 1325)
  • Basarab I of Wallachia
  • Al-Hakim II, Caliph of Cairo
  • Laurence Minot, English poet (b. 1300)
  • Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod
  • Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese monk and author (b. 1283)

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