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1365 (MCCCLXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1365th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 365th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 14th century, and the 6th year of the 1360s decade. As of the start of 1365, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

• Foundation of the University of Vienna
• Adrianopole (now Edirne) becomes the capital city of the Ottoman Empire.
• Failed revolt against the Venetian rulers in Crete.
• The city of Alexandria in Egypt is sacked by an allied force of Peter I of Cyprus and the knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
• Mpu Prapanca writes the epic poem, Nagarakretagama, about the Majapahit Empire in Java.
• In present-day southern India, Bahmani Sultan Mohammed Shah I invades the Vijayanagara Empire.
• The Sukhothai Kingdom in northern Thailand becomes a tributary state of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

• John de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros (died 1394)
• Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (died 1399)

• May 17 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (born 1328)
• July 27 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (born 1339)