1368

	1368 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

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

[edit] Events of 1368

March 29 – Emperor Chōkei accedes to the throne of Japan.
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.

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.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is established in Paris.
Peace treaty between Norway and the Hanseatic League.