1368

This article is about the year 1368.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1330s  1340s  1350s  – 1360s –  1370s  1380s  1390s
Years:	1365 1366 1367 – 1368 – 1369 1370 1371

1368 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1368 in poetry

1368 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1368 MCCCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2121
Armenian calendar	817 ԹՎ ՊԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6118
Bengali calendar	775
Berber calendar	2318
English Regnal year	41 Edw. 3 – 42 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1912
Burmese calendar	730
Byzantine calendar	6876–6877
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4064 or 4004     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4065 or 4005
Coptic calendar	1084–1085
Discordian calendar	2534
Ethiopian calendar	1360–1361
Hebrew calendar	5128–5129
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1424–1425
- Shaka Samvat	1290–1291
- Kali Yuga	4469–4470
Holocene calendar	11368
Igbo calendar	368–369
Iranian calendar	746–747
Islamic calendar	769–770
Japanese calendar	Jōji 7 / Ōan 1 (応安元年)
Julian calendar	1368 MCCCLXVIII
Korean calendar	3701
Minguo calendar	544 before ROC 民前544年
Thai solar calendar	1910–1911

Year 1368 (MCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 23 – The Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) establishes the Ming Dynasty in China after the disintegration of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. He immediately orders every county magistrate to set up four granaries, and halts government taxation on books.
• March 29 – Emperor Chōkei accedes to the throne of Japan.

Date unknown

• Durrës, the second-largest city in present-day Albania (and then known as Dyrrhachium), was captured from the Angevins by Karl Thopia, a powerful feudal prince and warlord.
• Timur ascends the throne of Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan).
• Work begins on the current Great Wall of China.
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich becomes the sole ruler of Tver (now in western Russia) after the death of co-ruler and rival Vasiliy Mikhailovich of Kashin.
• Moscow attacks Tver, which counter-attacks with the aid of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.
• The King of Norway sends the last Royal Ship from Norway to the Greenland Eastern Settlement. This event is part of both the Norse colonization of the Americas and of the History of Greenland.
• Peace treaty between Norway and the Hanseatic League.
• The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at the Louvre Palace in Paris by Charles V of France.
• Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as Il Canzoniere.

Births

• February 14 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1437)
• December 3 – King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• probable
  • Pope Martin V (d. 1431)
  • Thomas Hoccleve, English poet (d. 1426)

Deaths

• March 29 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
• August 25 – Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
• October 17 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
• probable – Ibn Battuta, Arabian traveler