1354

Year 1354 (MCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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 – The Gallipoli earthquake occurs, followed within a month by Turkish capture and settlement, the 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.

Date unknown

 * After 24 years of struggling for independence, since the Battle of Posada (1330), won against Hungarians by his father, Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia becomes vassal to Hungarian king Louis I.
 * Sahab-ud-Din becomes Sultan of Kashmir.

Births

 * Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1394)
 * Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, infante of Portugal (d. c.1397)
 * Alonso Enríquez, Spanish nobleman (d. 1429)
 * Frederick III, Count of Moers, German nobleman (d. 1417)
 * Gilbert de Greenlaw, Scottish bishop (d. 1421)
 * Jean de Grouchy, Norman knight (k. 1435)
 * Margaret of Joinville, French noblewoman (d. 1418)
 * Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, English nobleman (d. 1416)
 * Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1411/12)
 * Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales, English nobleman (d. 1387)
 * Catherine of Vendôme, French noblewoman (d. 1412)
 * Violante Visconti, Italian noblewoman (d. 1386)
 * Walram IV, Count of Nassau-Idstein, German nobleman (d. 1393)

January–March

 * January 8 – Charles de La Cerda (b. 1327)
 * January 16 – Joanna of Châtillon, Duchess of Athens (b. c. 1285)

April–June

 * June 1 – Kitabatake Chikafusa (b. 1293)

July–September

 * August 9 – Stephen, Duke of Slavonia, Hungarian prince (b. 1332)
 * September 7 – Andrea Dandolo, doge of Venice (b. 1306)

October–December

 * October 5 – Giovanni Visconti, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1290)
 * October 8 – Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c. 1313)
 * October 19 – Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (b. 1318)


 * date unknown – Wu Zhen, Chinese painter (b. 1280)