1368

1368 (MCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1368th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 368th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 14th century, and the 9th year of the 1360s decade. As of the start of 1368, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1368 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1368 MCCCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2121
Armenian calendar	817 ԹՎ ՊԺԷ
Assyrian calendar	6118
Balinese saka calendar	1289–1290
Bengali calendar	775
Berber calendar	2318
English Regnal year	41 Edw. 3 – 42 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1912
Burmese calendar	730
Byzantine calendar	6876–6877
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4064 or 4004     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4065 or 4005
Coptic calendar	1084–1085
Discordian calendar	2534
Ethiopian calendar	1360–1361
Hebrew calendar	5128–5129
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1424–1425
- Shaka Samvat	1289–1290
- Kali Yuga	4468–4469
Holocene calendar	11368
Igbo calendar	368–369
Iranian calendar	746–747
Islamic calendar	769–770
Japanese calendar	Jōji 7 / Ōan 1 (応安元年)
Javanese calendar	1281–1282
Julian calendar	1368 MCCCLXVIII
Korean calendar	3701
Minguo calendar	544 before ROC 民前544年
Nanakshahi calendar	−100
Thai solar calendar	1910–1911
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1494 or 1113 or 341     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1495 or 1114 or 342

Events

• Timur ascends throne of Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan)..
• Hongwu (also known as Zhu Yuanzhang) establishes the Ming Dynasty in China after the disintegration the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
• 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. Tver makes a counter-attack 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 (died 1437)
• December 3 – King Charles VI of France (died 1422)
• Pope Martin V (died 1431)
• Thomas Occleve, English poet (died 1450)
• Robert Merchant, French painter (Born June)

Deaths

• October 7 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (born 1338)
• Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
• Ibn-i-Yamin the 'Persian Puritan', poet
• Ramathibodi I, ruler of Ayutthaya