1381
Millennium:
2nd millennium
Centuries:
13th century -
14th century -
15th century
Decades:
1350s 1360s 1370s - 1380s - 1390s 1400s 1410s
Years:
1378 1379 1380 -
1381 -
1382 1383 1384
1381 in topic:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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1381 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1381
MCCCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita
2134
Armenian calendar
830
ԹՎ ՊԼ
Bahá'í calendar
-463 – -462
Berber calendar
2331
Buddhist calendar
1925
Burmese calendar
743
Byzantine calendar
6889 – 6890
Chinese calendar
庚申年十二月初六日
(4017/4077-12-6)
— to —
辛酉年十二月十六日
(4018/4078-12-16)
Coptic calendar
1097 – 1098
Ethiopian calendar
1373 – 1374
Hebrew calendar
5141 – 5142
Hindu calendars
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Vikram Samvat
1436 – 1437
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Shaka Samvat
1303 – 1304
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Kali Yuga
4482 – 4483
Holocene calendar
11381
Iranian calendar
759 – 760
Islamic calendar
782 – 783
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar
3714
Thai solar calendar
1924
Year 1381 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- June 12 - Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath. There the rebels are encouraged by a sermon, by renegade priest John Ball.
- June 14 - Peasants' Revolt: Rebels destroy John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace and storm the Tower of London, killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor. King Richard II of England meets the leaders of the revolt and agrees to reforms such as fair rents and the abolition of serfdom.
- June 15 - Peasants' Revolt: During further negotiations, Wat Tyler is murdered by the King's entourage. Noble forces subsequently overpower the rebel army. The rebel leaders are eventually captured and executed and Richard II revokes his concessions.
- August - Kęstutis overthrows his nephew, Jogaila, as Grand Duke of Lithuania. Jogaila is allowed to remain as governor of eastern Lithuania. This marks the beginning of the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384).
- Due to Joan I of Naples' support for Antipope Clement VII, Pope Urban VI bestows Naples upon Charles of Durazzo. With the help of the Hungarians, Charles advances on Naples and captures Joan.
- The Ming Dynasty of China annexes the areas of the old Kingdom of Dali, in what is now modern-day Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, inhabited by the Miao and Yao people. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese (including military colonists) will migrate there from the rest of China.
- James of Baux, the ruler of Taranto and the Latin Empire, claims the Principality of Achaea after the imprisonment of Joan I of Naples.
- Sonam Drakpa deposes Drakpa Changchub as ruler of Tibet.
- Hajji I succeeds Alah-ad-Din Ali as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. The Egyptian government continues to be controlled by rebel leader Berkuk.
- After a naval battle, Venice wins the three year War of Chioggia against Genoa. The Genoans are permanently weakened by the conflict.
- Timur conquers east Persia, ending the rule of the Sarbadar Dynasty.
- In Ming Dynasty China, the lijia census registration system begun in 1371 is now universally imposed during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor. The census counts 59,873,305 people living in China in this year. This depicts a drastic drop in population since the Song Dynasty, 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.[1]
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References
- Brook, Timothy (1998). The Confusions of Pleasure: Culture and Commerce in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22154-3