The Dorias, a wealthy and powerful Genoese…

Ayutthaya’s King Ramathibodi places his son, Prince Ramasuen, governor of Lop Buri province to the south, in command of the forces invading the Khmer Empire around 1352.

The prince sends five thousand of his troops ahead, a strategic error that enables the Khmer crown prince to defeat them and check the Ayutthayan advance.

Ramathibodi, on learning of this reversal, dispatches Prince Borommaracha, governor of Sup’an, to rescue his son’s expeditionary force.

Successful in this mission, Borommaracha wins a victory over the Khmers and annexes the empire’s Chanthaburi and …

…Khorat districts in the region of present eastern Thailand.

The first signs of the White Lotus Society had come during the late thirteenth century.

Mongol rule over China, known also by its dynastic name, the Yuan dynasty,had prompted small, yet popular demonstrations against foreign rule.

The White Lotus Society had taken part in some of these protests as they grew into widespread dissent.

The Mongols considered the White Lotus society a heterodox religious sect and banned it, forcing its members to go underground.

Now a secret society, the White Lotus became an instrument of quasi-national resistance and religious organization.

A revolution, inspired by the White Lotus society, takes shape in 1352 around Guangzhou.

A Buddhist monk and former boy-beggar, Zhu Yuanzhang, throws off his vestments and joins the rebellion.

His exceptional intelligence takes him to the head of a rebel army; he wins people to his side by forbidding his soldiers to pillage, in observance of White Lotus religious beliefs.

Ni Zan, a painter, scholar, poet, and calligrapher born into a wealthy family of Wuxi, in Jiangsu province, enjoys a life of leisure until 1352, when he gives away all his property and takes up residence on a houseboat, wandering around the Wuxi lakes.

Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos, as part of his efforts to establish a well-integrated realm, appoints his Kantakouzenos kinsmen as rulers of imperial territories.

As the emperor becomes engaged in battling Turkish incursions in Thrace and Macedonia, the deposed Emperor John V Palailogos assembles troops to depose John VI and regain the imperial throne.

The opposing armies meet in battle at Adrianople in 1352, where John VI’s forces, aided by some Turks, hold fast against the assault of John V.

Dushan's forces are defeated by the Ottoman Turks in 1352, when the Turkish forces, having first entered the Balkans as mercenaries of Constantinople in the 1340s, cross the Bosporus to return as invaders in their own right.

The court of Clement VI at Avignon is notable for nepotism and extravagance but also for charitable works during the Black Death, for protection of the Jews, and for patronage of artists and scholars.

Cola di Rienzo, who appears at Avignon in August 1352, is tried by three cardinals, and is sentenced to death, but this judgment is not carried out, and he remains in prison in spite of appeals from Petrarch for his release.

Freedom, however, is at hand.

Clement dies on December 6, 1352; his successor Innocent VI, is anxious to strike a blow at the baronial rulers of Rome.

Seeing in the former tribune an excellent tool for this purpose, he pardons and releases his prisoner.

Giving him the title of senator, he sends him to Italy with the legate, Cardinal Albornoz.

The Florentine Guelphs institute a reign of terror against Ghibelline officeholders in the wake of the failed 1351 invasion of Florentine territory by the Ghibelline-allied Milanese.

Joanna gives birth to her second child with Louis, another daughter, Françoise, in October 1351.

Five months later, on 23 March 1352, Louis receives Clement VI's formal recognition as his wife's co-ruler in all her realms.

On May 27, Louis is crowned with her by the Archbishop of Braga in the Hotel di Taranto in Naples.

A few days later, on 2 June, Françoise, by now the couple's only surviving child, dies, aged eight months.

Joanna will never again conceive.

Zweibrücken, a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate in southwestern Germany near the present French border (the city’s name, meaning "two bridges," was Bipontium to the Romans) receives its charter in 1352.

From the end of the tywelfh century, Zweibrücken has been the seat of the County of Zweibrücken, the counts being descended from Henry I, youngest son of Simon I, Count of Saarbrücken (d. 1182).