Editing 1368 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The [[Hongwu Emperor]] (Zhu Yuanzhang) establishes the [[Ming dynasty]] in [[China]], after the disintegration of the Mongol [[Yuan dynasty]]. The new dynasty will last until [[1644]]. The Emperor immediately orders every county magistrate to set up four [[Granary|granaries]], and halts government taxation on books.
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Emperor Chōkei]] accedes to the throne of [[Japan]].

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* The [[Revolt of Saint Titus]] against rule of the [[Republic of Venice]] in the [[Kingdom of Candia]] (island of [[Crete]]) ends in failure.
* [[Durrës]], the second-largest city in modern-day Albania (at this time known as Dyrrhachium), is captured from the [[Capetian House of Anjou|Angevins]] by [[Karl Thopia]], a powerful feudal prince and warlord.
* [[Lațcu of Moldavia|Lațcu]], son of [[Bogdan I of Moldavia|Bogdan I]], deposes his nephew [[Petru I of Moldavia|Petru I]], and becomes voivode of [[Moldavia]]. (Other sources state that Lațcu had succeeded his father Bogdan in 1367).<ref>{{cite book|last=Sălăgean|first=Tudor|editor-first=Pop|editor-last=Ioan-Aurel|title=History of Romania: Compendium|publisher= Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies)|year=2006|page=201|chapter=Romanian society in the early Middle Ages|isbn=978-973-7784-12-4}}</ref>
* [[Timur]] ascends the throne of [[Samarkand]] (in modern-day [[Uzbekistan]]).
* [[Maha Thammaracha II]] becomes ruler of the [[Sukhothai Kingdom]] (in modern-day northern [[Thailand]]) after the death of [[Maha Thammaracha I]].
* Work begins on the surviving [[Great Wall of China]].
* [[Mikhail II of Tver|Mikhail Aleksandrovich]] becomes the sole ruler of [[Tver]] (in modern-day western Russia), 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]] (National Library of 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 poetry|Italian]] [[sonnet]]s and other poems known as ''[[Il Canzoniere]]''.</onlyinclude>