- 1371
Year 1371 was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1371
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February 17 - Rival brothers Ivan Sratsimir and Ivan Shishman become co-Emperors ofBulgaria after the death of their father, Ivan Alexander. Bulgaria is weakened by the split.
*February 22 - Robert II becomes the first Stuart king ofScotland after the death of his uncle, David II.
*April 9 -Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan succeedsEmperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, becoming the 5th and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders.
*September 21 -John of Gaunt , son of KingEdward III of England , marries Constance of Castile, daughter of KingPedro of Castile , giving John of Gaunt a claim to the throne of Castile.
* CharterhouseCarthusian Monastery is founded inAldersgate ,London .
*Battle of Baesweiler , Brabant unexpectedly defeated.
* The first widely accepted historical reference is made toplaying cards (inSpain ).
* Zhao Bing Fa becomes King ofMong 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 ofSerbia after most of the noblility in Serbia are killed by theOttomans in theBattle of Maritsa . Lazar declines the title of Tsar.
*Edward, the Black Prince , gives up the administration ofAquitaine because of his poor health and heavy debts.
* Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King ofCambodia after the power of the Thai invaders from Ayutthaya begins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in1375 .
*Byzantine co-emperorJohn V Palaiologos pledges loyalty to theOttoman Empire to prevent the Turks from invadingConstantinople .
* TheHongwu Emperor of theMing Dynasty inChina introduces thecensus registration system of "lijia", or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout theYangzi valley. This system groups households into units of ten and groups of one hundred, whereupon their capacities for paying taxes and providing the state withcorvée labor service can be assessed. The system becomes fully operational in1381 , when it counts 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).Births
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May 28 -John the Fearless (d.1419 )
*September 21 -Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (d.1440 )
*December 30 - PrinceVasily I of Moscow (d. 1425)
*"date unknown"
**Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (d.1411 )
**Frederick of Lorraine , Count of Vaudemont (d.1415 )
**Sophia of Lithuania , regent of Lithuania (d.1453 )
**Zheng He , Chinese mariner and explorer (d.1433 )
*"probable" -Isabeau de Bavière , queen ofCharles VI of France (d.1435 )Deaths
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February 22 -David II of Scotland (b.1324 )
*March 4 -Jeanne d'Évreux , queen consort of France (b.1310 )
*September -Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (b. c. 1336)
*September 26 -Jovan Uglješa , Serbian despot
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