1354

Events

Early in the year – Ibn Battuta returns from his travels at the command of Abu Inan Faris, sultan of Morocco, who appoints a scribe to write an account of the adventures.
February 12 – The Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
March 2 – During the night between 1 and 2 March, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses, along with destroying the neighboring villages and towns in the area.
March - Within a month after the devastating earthquake the Ottomans besieged and captured the town of Gallipoli, making it the first Ottoman stronghold in Europe and the staging area for Ottoman expansion across the Balkans.
October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.
August 16 – War of the Straits: The Venetian-ruled town of PoreÃÂ is sacked by the Genoese under Paganino Doria, who carry off the relics of saints Eleutherius and Maurus of Parentium to Genoa, where they were deposited at the church of San Matteo.
November 4 – War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under NiccolÃÂ² Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.
December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.

After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes a vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.
Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.</onlyinclude>