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Year 1355 (MCCCLV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

* January 6 – Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
* January 7 – King Afonso IV of Portugal sends three men who kill Inês de Castro, mistress of his son Pedro, who revolts and incites a civil war.
* February 10 – St Scholastica Day riot in Oxford, England, breaks out, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
* March 16 – Red Turban Rebellions: Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.
* April – Philip II, Prince of Taranto, marries Maria of Calabria, daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria, and Marie of Valois.
* April 5 – Charles IV is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
* April 18 – In Venice, the Council of Ten beheads Doge Marin Falier, for conspiring to kill them.
* May – Red Turban Rebellions: Guo Zixing dies, leaving his forces to the command of his son-in-law, Zhu Yuanzhang. Guo's successors are later killed in battle while trying to capture Nanjing.

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