1352

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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• June 4 - Glarus joins the Swiss Confederation.
• June 27 - Zug joins the Swiss Confederation.
• December 18 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
• Morroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon instruments at the court of Mansa Musa.
• Dragos¸ becomes voivode of Moldova.
• Corpus Christi College founded as a College of the University of Cambridge by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• The Ottoman Turk army crosses the Bosporus, entering the Balkans.
• Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.
• William de Ashlee becomes Rector of Maids Moreton, England.
• The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.
• The Earldom of Kent becomes extinct (see Deaths, below).
• The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Metropolitan of Halych, began to relocate back to Kiev, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan would hold the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv-Halych and All Rus.

• Rupert, King of the Germans (d. 1410).
• John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (estimate).
• Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430).

• December 6 - Pope Clement VI.
• Basarab I, Prince of Wallachia.
• John Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Kent, whereupon the Earldom became extinct.
• William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (b. circa 1326).
• Elisabeth of Carinthia, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
• William la Zouche, the first Baron Zouche.
• Thomas Wale, a Knight Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.