1371

Year 1371 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events

 * End of the reign of, fourth of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders. Start of the reign of , fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders
 * founded in,.
 * First widely accepted historical reference to (in ).
 * becomes the first king of  after the death of his uncle,.
 * Rival brothers, and  become co-Emperors of  after the death of their father, . Bulgaria is weakened by the split.
 * Zhao Bing Fa becomes King of (in present day south China/north Myanmar) after the death of his father,.
 * succeeds his distant cousin,, as ruler of after most of the noblility in Serbia are killed by the  in the . Lazar declines the title of Tsar.
 * is removed as administrator of by  of  due to the Prince's poor health and heavy debt caused by the murder of his ally and debtor,.
 * , son of Edward III of England, marries, daughter of King , giving John of Gaunt a claim to the throne of Castille.
 * Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King of after the power of the  invaders from  begins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in 1375.
 * co-emperor pledges loyalty to the  to prevent the Turks invading.
 * The of the  in  installs the  registration system of lijia, or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout the  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  labor service could be assessed. The system became fully operational in, 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).

Births

 * - (died )
 * Duke (died )
 * , queen of (died )
 * (died )
 * , Chinese mariner and explorer (died )
 * , Count of Vaudemont (died )
 * , regent of Lithuania (died )
 * (died )

Deaths

 * - (born )