1381

This article is about the year 1381. For the number, see 1381 (number).

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 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1381 in poetry

1381 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1381 MCCCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2134
Armenian calendar	830 ԹՎ ՊԼ
Assyrian calendar	6131
Bengali calendar	788
Berber calendar	2331
English Regnal year	4 Ric. 2 – 5 Ric. 2
Buddhist calendar	1925
Burmese calendar	743
Byzantine calendar	6889–6890
Chinese calendar	庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4077 or 4017     — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4078 or 4018
Coptic calendar	1097–1098
Discordian calendar	2547
Ethiopian calendar	1373–1374
Hebrew calendar	5141–5142
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1437–1438
- Shaka Samvat	1303–1304
- Kali Yuga	4482–4483
Holocene calendar	11381
Igbo calendar	381–382
Iranian calendar	759–760
Islamic calendar	782–783
Japanese calendar	Kōryaku 3 / Eitoku 1 (永徳元年)
Julian calendar	1381 MCCCLXXXI
Korean calendar	3714
Minguo calendar	531 before ROC 民前531年
Thai solar calendar	1923–1924

Year 1381 (MCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 14 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
• 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. The revolt is discussed in John Gower's Vox Clamantis and Froissart's Chronicles.
• 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 (1381–84).

Date unknown

• Due to Joanna 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 Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, inhabited by the Miao and Yao peoples. 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 Joanna 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 Barquq.
• 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.

Births

• May 9 – Johann Schiltberger, German traveller and writer (d. 1440)
• October 13 – Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1415)
• date unknown
  • Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (d. 1416)
  • John I, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1434)
  • Saint Rita of Cascia (d. 1457)

Deaths

• March 24 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint
• May 15 – Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
• June 14 – Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (murdered)
• June 15
  • John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (murdered)
  • Wat Tyler, English rebel (murdered)
• July 15 – John Ball, renegade priest (executed)
• December 2 – John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
• December 27 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician