1371

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s
Years:	1368 1369 1370 1371 1372 1373 1374

1371 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1371 MCCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2124
Armenian calendar	820 ԹՎ ՊԻ
Assyrian calendar	6121
Balinese saka calendar	1292–1293
Bengali calendar	778
Berber calendar	2321
English Regnal year	44Edw. 3– 45Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1915
Burmese calendar	733
Byzantine calendar	6879–6880
Chinese calendar	Canh tuấtNiên (MetalDog) 4068 or 3861 — to — Tân hợi niên (MetalPig) 4069 or 3862
Coptic calendar	1087–1088
Discordian calendar	2537
Ethiopian calendar	1363–1364
Hebrew calendar	5131–5132
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	1427–1428
-Shaka Samvat	1292–1293
-Kali Yuga	4471–4472
Holocene calendar	11371
Igbo calendar	371–372
Iranian calendar	749–750
Islamic calendar	772–773
Japanese calendar	Ōan4 ( ứng an ４ niên )
Javanese calendar	1284–1285
Julian calendar	1371 MCCCLXXI
Korean calendar	3704
Minguo calendar	541 beforeROC Dân tiền 541 niên
Nanakshahi calendar	−97
Thai solar calendar	1913–1914
Tibetan calendar	Dương kim cẩu niên (male Iron-Dog) 1497 or 1116 or 344 — to — Âm kim trư niên (female Iron-Pig) 1498 or 1117 or 345

Year1371(MCCCLXXI) was acommon year starting on Wednesday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January–Edward, the Black Prince,gives up the administration ofAquitaineand returns to England, because of his poor health and heavy debts.
• February 17– Rival brothersIvan SratsimirandIvan Shishmanbecome co-Emperors ofBulgariaafter the death of their father,Ivan Alexander.Bulgaria is weakened by the split.
• February 22–Robert IIbecomes the firstStuartking ofScotland,after the death of his uncle,David II.
• March 28– TheLondon Charterhouse,aCarthusianmonastery,is founded inAldersgate.
• April 9–Emperor Go-En'yuof Japan succeedsEmperor Go-KōgonofJapan,becoming the 5th and last Emperor of theNorthern Court.
• August 22–Battle of Baesweiler:Brabant is unexpectedly defeated by the Duchy ofJülich.
• September 21–John of Gaunt,son of KingEdward III of England,marriesConstance of Castile,daughter of KingPedro of Castile,giving John a claim to the throne of Castile.
• September 26–Battle of Maritsa:Most of the nobility in Serbia are killed by theOttomans.
• December–Lazarsucceeds his distant cousin,Stefan Uroš V,as ruler ofSerbia,but declines the title of Tsar.

Date unknown

• The first widely accepted historical reference is made toplaying cards(inSpain).
• Polish priestAndrzej Jastrzębiecbecomes the first bishop ofSiret,thus bringing Catholicism toMoldavia.
• Zhao Bing Fa becomes King ofMong Mao(in modern-day south China/north Myanmar) after the death of his father,Si Kefa.
• Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King ofCambodiaafter the power of theThaiinvaders fromAyutthayabegins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in1375.
• Byzantineco-emperorJohn V Palaiologospledges loyalty to theOttoman Empire,to prevent the Turks from invadingConstantinople.
• TheHongwu Emperorof theMing dynastyinChinaintroduces thecensusregistration system oflijia,or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout theYangziValley. This system groups households into units of ten and groups of one hundred, whereupon their capacities for paying taxes and providing the state withcorvéelabor service can be assessed. The system becomes fully operational in1381,when it counts 59,873,305 people living in China (the historianTimothy Brookasserts that the number was much higher, somewhere between 65 million and 75 million).

Births

• 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)
  • 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

• January/February –Paul, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
• February 17–Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
• 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
• September 26–Vukašin Mrnjavčević,Serbian king