Year 1362 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1362
- The Venerable English College is first founded.
- January 16 - The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
- Under Edward III, English replaces French as England's national language, for the first time following the Norman Conquest of 1066.[1]
- September 28 - Pope Urban V succeeds Pope Innocent VI as the 200th pope.
- Louis I of Hungary defeats and captures Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria; he conquers northern Bulgaria, extending his control over the Balkans.
- The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole (now the city of Edirne) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.
- Waldemar Atterdag of Denmark defeats the Hanseatic League in a naval battle off Helsingborg.
- Shahabuddin succeeds his brother, Alauddin Ali Sher, as Sultan of Kashmir.
- Constantine VI succeeds his cousin, Constantine V, as King of Armenia.
- Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas crushes the Tatars at the Blue Waters of the Southern Bug.
- Purported date of the inscription of the Kensington Runestone.
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