1352
Year 1352 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 13 - War of the Straits - The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets. The Genoese emerge victorious, as the other fleets withdraw.
- June 4 - Glarus joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
- June 27 - Zug joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
- September 25 - Emperor Go-Kōgon becomes 4th Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.
- October - Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 - Battle of Demotika: Fighting as allies of John VI Kantakouzenos, the Ottoman beylik scores its first victory on European soil, against the Serbs.
- November 7 - Corpus Christi College is founded as a College of the University of Cambridge in England, by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- December 18 - Pope Innocent VI succeeds Pope Clement VI as the 199th pope.
- December 26 - The Earldom of Kent of the 5th creation in England becomes extinct.
Date unknown
- Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan) is probably granted control of Çimpe Castle on the Gallipoli peninsula by Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, the first territory west of the Bosporus held by the Ottoman Empire.
Births
- May 5 - Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- Elizabeth of Slavonia, Latin empress consort of Constantinopledate unknown
- * John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
- * Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Deaths
- September 15 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader
- December 6 - Pope Clement VI date unknown
- * Matthias of Arras, French architect
- * Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Sicily, regent of Sicily
- * William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros
- * Basarab I of Wallachia
- * Al-Hakim II, Caliph of Cairo
- * Laurence Minot, English poet
- * Vasilii Kalika, Archbishop of Novgorod
- * Yoshida Kenkō, Japanese monk and author