1352

Events

• June 4 - Glarus joins the Swiss Confederation.
• June 27 - Zug joins the Swiss Confederation.
• December 18 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
• Morroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon instruments at the court of Mansa Musa.
• Dragos¸ becomes voivode of Moldova.
• Corpus Christi College founded as a College of the University of Cambridge by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary.
• The Ottoman Turk army crosses the Bosporus, entering the Balkans.
• Lionel of Antwerp marries Elizabeth, daughter of William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster .
• William de Ashlee becomes Rector of Maids Moreton, England.
• The town of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland finalizes its alliance with the city of Bern.
• Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham becomes a Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter of England.
• The Earldom of Kent becomes extinct (see Deaths, below).
• The Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Metropolitan of Halych , began to relocate back to Kyiv, after having moved to Halych in 1299. Thereafter, the Metropolitan would hold the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv-Halych and All Rus .

Births

• Rupert, King of the Germans (d. 1410).
• John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (estimate).
• Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430).

Deaths

• December 6 - Pope Clement VI.
• Basarab I, Prince of Wallachia.
• John Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Kent , whereupon the Earldom became extinct.
• William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (b. circa 1326).
• Elisabeth of Carinthia , Empress of the Holy Roman Empire .
• William la Zouche , the first Baron Zouche.
• Thomas Wale , a Knight Founder of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.