February 18– The English Parliament closes after a 25-day session. Among the acts passed and given royal assent are the Justices of the Peace Act 1361, defining, for the first time, the duties and powers of a justice of the peace and setting for the qualifications required.[2], as well as acts governing weights and measres, the limitation of purveyances to "the King, the Queen and the King's eldest son", several acts for punishment of labourers and servants for "departing from their service into another county," and directing that if they "If a labourer or servant do flee to a city or borough, do flee to a city or borough, the chief officer upon request shall deliver him up."[3]
June 24– Thirteen years after the Black Death disease came to England, a two-day spike in deaths occurs in London with 1,200 people dying from the bubonic plague on June 24 and June 25.[7]
August 3– (24th day of 6th month of Shōhei 16) The Shōhei earthquake, estimated centuries later as being at least 8.4 magnitude, strikes off of the eastern coast of Japan and causes a tsunami[10] which sweeps 1,700 houses and their thousands of inhabitants around Yukinominato Bay out to sea.[11]
August 6– The Emir Ahi Ayna guides his army into the Empire of Trebizond and besieges the cities of Lazica, Golacha and Koukos.[12]
November 21–Philip of Rouvres, the 15-year old Duke of Burgundy, dies from the plague has no heirs, bringing an end to rule by the House of Capet and leaving the Duchy open to conquest by King Jean II of France.
December 28–King Jean II of France, nicknamed "John the Good" in English accounts, invades and takes control of the Duchy of Burgundy. He chooses to keep the Duchy as a separate state with himself as Duke, rather than to annex it to the Kingdom of France.
In the Marinid Empire in modern-day Morocco, Abu Salim Ibrahim is overthrown by Abu Umar, who is in turn overthrown by Abu Zayyan.
Great Troubles: the Blue Horde descends into anarchy. Between 1361 and 1378, over 20 khans succeed each other in different parts of the Blue Horde's territory.
↑Shukurov, Rustam (June 1994). "Between Peace and Hostility: Trebizond and the Pontic Turkish Periphery in the Fourteenth Century". Mediterranean Historical Review. 9 (1). Routledge: 33.
↑Ghazarian, Jacob G. (2000). The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades. Routledge. pp.166–168.
↑Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
↑Keyboards of Nicholas Faber's organ for Halberstadt, built in 1361 and enlarged 1495. The illustration is from Praetorius' Syntagma Musicum (1619). At the top is the earliest example of the "seven plus five" layout. The bottom two illustrate the earlier "eight plus four" arrangement
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