1368

January–December

• January 23 - The Hongwu Emperor 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.

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• Durrës, the second-largest city in present-day Albania, is captured from the Angevins by Karl Thopia, a powerful feudal prince and warlord.
• Lațcu, son of Bogdan I, deposes his nephew Petru I, and becomes voivode of Moldavia.
• Timur ascends the throne of Samarkand.
• Work begins on the current Great Wall of China.
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich becomes the sole ruler of Tver, 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.
• A peace treaty is signed between Norway and the Hanseatic League.
• The Bibliothèque nationale de 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.