1354

January–December

• 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 - Gallipoli earthquake, followed within a month by Turkish capture and settlement. see Fall of Gallipoli
• October 8 - Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.
• 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.

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• After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada, won against Hungarians by his father, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.
• The Ottoman Turks capture the city of Didymoteicho from the Byzantine Empire.
• The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang is established by Fa Ngum.
• Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.
• Assassins strike down Sultan Hassan, and his body is never returned.