1356

Events 
 January 20 – Edward Balliol quits job as King of Scotland and gives job to Edward III of England
 September 19 – Battle of Poitiers The English, led by the Black Prince, beat the French in the Hundred Years' War, taking the King John II of France while winning.
 October 18 – The Basel earthquake breaks the city of Basel in Switzerland.
 December 25 – Emperor Charles IV. announces the Golden Bull, a sort of medieval constitution for the Holy Roman Empire
 The city of Lwów granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III of Poland
 The majority of the Great Pyramid of Giza's limestone casing stones are removed by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build fortresses and mosques in the nearby city of Cairo, leaving the first of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the step-stone condition in which it remains today.
 Burnt Candlemas – Edward III of England burns down every town and village in Lothian, Scotland.
 The official founding of the Hanseatic League, a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe.
 Ghazan II takes Anusirvan's job as ruler of the Il-Khanate in Persia.

 Births 
 King Martin I of Aragon (died 1410)

 Deaths 
 September 19 – Killed at the Battle of Poitiers:
 Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1311)
 Walter VI of Brienne, Constable of France (born 1304)