1368

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