1356

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1356.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Centuries:	13th Century		14th Century			15th Century
Decades:	1320s	1330s	1340s	1350s	1360s	1370s	1380s
Years:	1353	1354	1355	1356	1357	1358	1359

Undated

• Ongoing: Hundred Year's War
• Event: The War of the Two Peters begins. This border war between Castile and Aragon is essentially a spin-off from the Hundred Year's War, and is characterized by rapidly shifting fronts.
• Event: Hanseatic League founded.
• Event: The limestone casing stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza are torn off and used to make other buildings elsewhere in Egypt, leaving the Pyramids in their current shape and appearance.

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September

• September 19:
  • Event: The Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred's Year War: Via superior tactics the English longbow defeats the French knights, and captures the King of France.

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