1381

Year 1381 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events

 * - : In, rebels from and , led by  and , meet at . There the rebels are encouraged by a sermon by renegade priest,.
 * - : Rebels destroy 's and storm the, killing the  and the  . King  meets the leaders of the revolt and agrees to reforms such as fair rents and the abolition of.
 * - : During further negotiations, is murdered by the King's entourage. Noble forces subsequently overpower the rebel army. The rebel leaders are eventually captured and executed and  revokes his concessions.
 * The revolt is discussed in 's ' and '.
 * overthrows his nephew,, as . is allowed to remain as governor of eastern.
 * Due to ' support for, bestows  upon . With the help of the , Charles advances on Naples and captures Joan.
 * , the ruler of and the, claims the  after the imprisonment of.
 * Sonam Drakpa deposes Drakpa Changchub as ruler of.
 * Hajji I succeeds Alah-ad-Din Ali as Sultan of . The Egyptian government continues to be controlled by rebel leader,.
 * After a naval battle, wins the three year  against . The Genoans are permanently weakened by the conflict.
 * conquers east, ending the rule of the Dynasty.
 * In, the lijia census registration system begun in  is now universally imposed during the reign of the . The census counted 59,873,305 people living in China in this year. This depicts a drastic drop in population since the , which counted 100 million people at its height in the early 12th century. The historian Timothy Brook, in his The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China, states that the Ming census was inaccurate, as China in the late 14th century had at least 65,000,000 inhabitants, if not 75,000,000.

Births

 * -, German traveller and writer (died )
 * -, English politician (died )
 * (died )
 * (died )

Deaths

 * -, Swedish saint
 * -, German robber baron
 * -, Lord Chief Justice of England
 * -, English rebel
 * -, renegade priest
 * -, Flemish mystic
 * -, English politician
 * -, English politician