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

January 20 - Edward Balliol surrenders title as King of Scotland to Edward III of England
April 16 — the King of the Serbian Kingdom of Raška Stefan Dušan is proclaimed Tsar (Emperor) of all Serbs, Arbanasses and Greeks in Skopje by the Serbian Orthodox Christian Patriarch of a large Balkan Serbian Empire
September 19 - Battle of Poitiers The English defeat the French in the Hundred Years' War, capturing the King John II of France in the process.
October 18 - The city of Basle in Switzerland is destroyed by an earthquake.
December 25 - Emperor Charles IV. promulgates the Golden Bull, a sort of medieval constitution for the Holy Roman Empire
The city of Lwów granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III of Poland
The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza's limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build fortresses and mosques in the nearby city of Cairo, leaving the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the step-stone condition in which it remains today.

September 19 - Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
- Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1311)
- Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)

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