Year 1371 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

EventsEdit

• End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan, fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders. Start of the reign of Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
• Charterhouse Carthusian Monastery founded in Aldersgate, London.
• First widely accepted historical reference to playing cards (in Spain).
• Robert II becomes the first Stuart king of Scotland after the death of his uncle, David II.
• Rival brothers, Ivan Sratsimir and Ivan Shishman become co-Emperors of Bulgaria after the death of their father, Ivan Alexander. Bulgaria is weakened by the split.
• Zhao Bing Fa becomes King of Mong Mao (in present day south China/north Myanmar) after the death of his father, Si Ke Fa.
• Lazar succeeds his distant cousin, Stefan Uroš V, as ruler of Serbia after most of the noblility in Serbia are killed by the Ottomans in the Battle of Maritsa. Lazar declines the title of Tsar.
• Edward the Black Prince is removed as administrator of Aquitaine by Edward III of England due to the Prince's poor health and heavy debt caused by the murder of his ally and debtor, Pedro of Castile.
• John of Gaunt, son of Edward III of England, marries Constance of Castile, daughter of King Pedro of Castile, giving John of Gaunt a claim to the throne of Castille.
• Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King of Cambodia after the power of the Thai invaders from Ayutthaya begins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in 1375.
• Byzantine co-emperor John V Palaiologos pledges loyalty to the Ottoman Empire to prevent the Turks invading Constantinople.
• The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China installs the census registration system of lijia, or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout the Yangzi valley. This system grouped households into units of ten and groups of one hundred, whereupon their capacities for paying taxes and providing the state with corvée labor service could be assessed. The system became fully operational in 1381, when it counted 59,873,305 people living in China (the historian Timothy Brook asserts that the number was much higher, somewhere between 65 million and 75 million).

BirthsEdit

• May 28 - John the Fearless (died 1419)
• Duke Leopold IV of Austria (died 1411)
• Isabeau de Bavière, queen of Charles VI of France (died 1435)
• Frederick I (died 1440)
• Zheng He, Chinese mariner and explorer (died 1433)
• Frederick of Lorraine, Count of Vaudemont (died 1415)
• Sophia of Lithuania, regent of Lithuania (died 1453)
• Joan II of Naples (died 1435)
• Vasili I of Russia

DeathsEdit

• February 22 - David II of Scotland (born 1324)

People of the year 1371 at Familypedia

8 people were born in 1371

6 children were born to the 2 women born in 1371

8 people died in 1371

435 people lived in 1371

Events of the year 1371 at FamilypediaEdit

10 people were married in 1371.

There were 1 military battles in 1371.