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Year 1351 (MCCCLI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January 14 – Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act 1351, defining treason in English law. It remains unrepealed into the 21st century.
February – Enactments by the Parliament of England:
The Statute of Labourers deals with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.
Statute of Provisors prevents the Pope from appointing clergy to English benefices.
March 4 – The Ayutthaya Kingdom is established by King Uthong (Ramathibodi I) in modern-day Thailand. He begins to propagate Theravada Buddhism as the state religion.
March 23 – Firuz Shah Tughlaq succeeds Mohammad Tughlaq as ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. At this time, the Samma dynasty in Sindh (part of modern-day Pakistan) breaks away from the Sultanate.
March 26 – War of the Breton Succession: Combat of the Thirty – Thirty chosen knights each, from the Kingdoms of France and England, fight to determine who will rule the Duchy of Brittany; a Franco-Breton victory is assured by the squire Guillaume de Montauban.
April 1 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Saintes. – The French are defeated by the English.
April 8 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. – The French are defeated by the English.
May 1 – Zürich joins the Old Swiss Confederacy.
November 26 – Emperor Sukō abdicates as 3rd Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.

The Red Turban Rebellions break out in China, leading to permanent weakening of the Mongolian-run Yuan dynasty.
King Gongmin ascends the throne in Goryeo.
The region of Vantaa in Finland is first mentioned (as Helsinge).</onlyinclude>

October 16 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
November 1 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
Princess Joan of France (d. 1371)
probable – Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (d. 1434)