1352

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 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.
• The Bengal Sultanate is formed after the realms of Satgaon, Lakhnauti and Sonargaon are united under Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah.
• Coming from Hungary, the noble Vlach Dragoş becomes the first voivode of Moldova, being seen as the founder of this principality.
• Following the death of his father Basarab, Nicholas Alexander becomes voivode of Wallachia, after being co-ruler for about eight years.
• The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.
• Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.
• The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the Metropolitan of Halych begins to relocate back to Kyiv, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan will hold the title of Metropolitan of Kiev-Halych and All Rus.
• After years of begging and being a Buddhist monk, the penniless Chinese peasant Zhu Yuanzhang joins the Red Turban Rebellions against the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China; he will later become the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.
• Earliest surviving illustration of someone wearing spectacles, a fresco in the chapter house of the Dominican convent of San Nicolò, Treviso by Tommaso da Modena depicting Hugh of Saint-Cher.
• Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon musical instruments, at the court of Mansa Musa.

  Births

• May 5 - Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine
• Elizabeth of Slavonia, Latin empress consort of Constantinople
• date 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