Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1330s  1340s  1350s  - 1360s -  1370s  1380s  1390s
Years:	1365 1366 1367 - 1368 - 1369 1370 1371

1368 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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

Events of 1368

• Timur ascends to the throne of Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan).
• Hongwu (also known as 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.
• Work begins on the current Great Wall of China.
• Emperor Chōkei accedes to the throne of Japan.
• Ramesuan succeeds Ramathibodi I as ruler of Ayutthaya (now southern Thailand).

• Mikhail Aleksandrovich becomes the sole ruler of Tver (now in eastern Russia) after the death of co-ruler and rival 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.

Births

• February 14 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1437)
• December 3 - King Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• Pope Martin V (d. 1431)
• Thomas Occleve, English poet (d. 1450)
• Robert Merchant, French painter

Deaths

• March 29 - Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
• October 7 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
• Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
• Ibn-i-Yamin (the 'Persian Puritan'), poet
• Ramathibodi I, ruler of Ayutthaya
• Ibn Battuta, Arabian traveler