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.

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 Occleve, English poet (d. 1450)

Deaths

• March 29 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)

• August 25 – Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

• October 7 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)

• probable – Ibn Battuta, Arabian traveler