The 1370s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1370, and ended on December 31, 1379.

Events

1370

January–December

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1371

January–December

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  • The first widely accepted historical reference is made to playing cards (in Spain).[4]
  • Polish priest Andrzej Jastrzębiec becomes the first bishop of Siret, thus bringing Catholicism to Moldavia.
  • Zhao Bing Fa becomes King of Mong Mao (in modern-day south China/north Myanmar) after the death of his father, Si Kefa.
  • Kalamegha claims the vacant title of King of Cambodia after the power of the Thai invaders from Ayutthaya begins to weaken. The Ayutthayans are finally expelled in 1375.
  • Byzantine co-emperor John V Palaiologos pledges loyalty to the Ottoman Empire, to prevent the Turks from invading Constantinople.
  • The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming dynasty in China introduces the census registration system of lijia, or the hundreds-and-tithing system, throughout the Yangzi Valley. This system groups households into units of ten and groups of one hundred, whereupon their capacities for paying taxes and providing the state with corvée labor service can be assessed. The system becomes fully operational in 1381, 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).

1372

January–December

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1373

January–December

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1374

January–December

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1375

January–December

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1376

January–December

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1377

January–December

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1378

January–December

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1379

January–December

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Significant people

Births

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Deaths

1370

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Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

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