1363

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1340s 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s
Years:	1360 1361 1362 1363 1364 1365 1366

1363 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1363 MCCCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	2116
Armenian calendar	812 ԹՎ ՊԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	6113
Balinese saka calendar	1284–1285
Bengali calendar	769–770
Berber calendar	2313
English Regnal year	36 Edw. 3 – 37 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1907
Burmese calendar	725
Byzantine calendar	6871–6872
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4060 or 3853     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4061 or 3854
Coptic calendar	1079–1080
Discordian calendar	2529
Ethiopian calendar	1355–1356
Hebrew calendar	5123–5124
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1419–1420
- Shaka Samvat	1284–1285
- Kali Yuga	4463–4464
Holocene calendar	11363
Igbo calendar	363–364
Iranian calendar	741–742
Islamic calendar	764–765
Japanese calendar	Jōji 2 (貞治２年)
Javanese calendar	1276–1277
Julian calendar	1363 MCCCLXIII
Korean calendar	3696
Minguo calendar	549 before ROC 民前549年
Nanakshahi calendar	−105
Thai solar calendar	1905–1906
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1489 or 1108 or 336     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1490 or 1109 or 337

Year 1363 (MCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• April 9 – Haakon VI of Norway marries Margaret I of Denmark.
• August – The Revolt of Saint Titus, against the rule of the Republic of Venice in the Kingdom of Candia (island of Crete), begins.
• August 30–October 4 – Battle of Lake Poyang: The Dahan rebel forces of Chen Youliang are defeated by the Red Turban Rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang, during the final decade of Yuan Dynasty control over China. Zhu's naval forces of 200,000 are pitted against Chen's naval forces of 650,000 troops, in what is not only the largest naval battle of the medieval age, but also one of the largest naval battles in history.

Date unknown

• Ottoman Turks seize Filibe (Philippopolis) in Thrace in the Byzantine–Ottoman wars.[1][2]
• Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, dethrones Dmitry of Suzdal to become Grand Prince of Vladimir.
• Philip the Bold becomes duke of Burgundy.[3]
• Al-Afdal al-Abbas succeeds Al-Mujahid Ali as Rasulid Sultan of Yemen.
• The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is completed in Cairo, Egypt.

Births

• July 2 – Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
• December 13 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris (d. 1429)
• date unknown
  • Margaret of Bavaria, Burgundian regent (d. 1423)
  • Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England (d. 1437)
• probable – Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese actor and playwright (d. 1443)

Deaths

• January 13 – Meinhard III, Count of Tyrol
• March 3 – Simone Boccanegra, first doge of Genoa (approximate date)
• c. April – Blanche of Namur, queen consort of Sweden (b. 1320)
• July 29 – John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf (b. 1314)
• August 23 – Chen Youliang, founder of the Dahan regime (b. 1320)
• October 7 – Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde (b. 1304)
• date unknown
  • Adil-Sultan, khan of the Chagatai Khanate
  • Jean Buridan, French philosopher (b. 1295)[4]
• probable – Ranulf Higdon, English chronicler (b. c. 1299)

References

1. İnalcık, Halil (1994). Kuruluş Dönemi Osmanlı Sultanları (in Turkish). İSAM. pp. 69–71. ISBN 978-605-5586-06-5.
2. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. pp. 377–378. ISBN 0472082604.
3. "Philip II | duke of Burgundy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
4. Prestes, Maria Elice de Brzezinski; Silva, Cibelle Celestino (2018). Teaching Science with Context: Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Approaches. Springer. p. 344. ISBN 9783319740362.