Timeline December 1355

Events in December 1355 3

• 1308 – 1355 Stefan Dušan (1308-1355) Died 20 December 1355, aged 47 Stefan Dušan expanded the Serbian state into the Serbian Empire, conquering large territories across the Balkans and having himself crowned emperor in 1346. His sudden death while preparing a campaign against Byzantium left the empire without a strong successor. Serbian power fragmented rapidly under his son Stefan Uroš V, ending the empire within decades.
• 1355 Black Prince's Grande Chevauchée English forces raid across southern France Edward, the Black Prince, led an English army out of Bordeaux on a destructive raid through Languedoc, sacking towns including Carcassonne and Narbonne. The chevauchée devastated the French countryside and depleted enemy resources without seeking a pitched battle. It set the stage for the renewed campaigning that led to the English victory at Poitiers the following year.
• 1355 Ibn Battuta's Rihla is completed with Ibn Juzayy Travel account dictated at the order of Sultan Abu Inan At the order of the Marinid sultan, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to the scholar Ibn Juzayy in Fez. The work, known as the Rihla, became one of the major travel writings of the medieval world.