1359

1359 (MCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1359th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 359th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 14th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1350s decade. As of the start of 1359, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1320s  1330s  1340s  – 1350s –  1360s  1370s  1380s
Years:	1356 1357 1358 – 1359 – 1360 1361 1362

1359 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1359 MCCCLIX
Ab urbe condita	2112
Armenian calendar	808 ԹՎ ՊԸ
Assyrian calendar	6109
Balinese saka calendar	1280–1281
Bengali calendar	766
Berber calendar	2309
English Regnal year	32 Edw. 3 – 33 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1903
Burmese calendar	721
Byzantine calendar	6867–6868
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4055 or 3995     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4056 or 3996
Coptic calendar	1075–1076
Discordian calendar	2525
Ethiopian calendar	1351–1352
Hebrew calendar	5119–5120
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1415–1416
- Shaka Samvat	1280–1281
- Kali Yuga	4459–4460
Holocene calendar	11359
Igbo calendar	359–360
Iranian calendar	737–738
Islamic calendar	760–761
Japanese calendar	Enbun 4 (延文４年)
Javanese calendar	1271–1272
Julian calendar	1359 MCCCLIX
Korean calendar	3692
Minguo calendar	553 before ROC 民前553年
Nanakshahi calendar	−109
Thai solar calendar	1901–1902
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1485 or 1104 or 332     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1486 or 1105 or 333

Events

• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Orhan I (1326-1359) to Murad I (1359-1389)
• Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
• Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, and her husband Louis of Bavaria are absolved from excommunication.
• Second Treaty of London signed between England and France, but rejected by the French States-General on May 25.