1368

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

Events

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.