1371

1371 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1371; MCCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2124
Armenian calendar	820; ԹՎ ՊԻ
Assyrian calendar	6121
Balinese saka calendar	1292–1293
Bengali calendar	778
Berber calendar	2321
English Regnal year	44 Edw. 3 – 45 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1915
Burmese calendar	733
Byzantine calendar	6879–6880
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4068 or 3861; — to —; 辛亥年 (Metal Pig); 4069 or 3862
Coptic calendar	1087–1088
Discordian calendar	2537
Ethiopian calendar	1363–1364
Hebrew calendar	5131–5132
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1427–1428
- Shaka Samvat	1292–1293
- Kali Yuga	4471–4472
Holocene calendar	11371
Igbo calendar	371–372
Iranian calendar	749–750
Islamic calendar	772–773
Japanese calendar	Ōan 4; (応安４年)
Javanese calendar	1284–1285
Julian calendar	1371; MCCCLXXI
Korean calendar	3704
Minguo calendar	541 before ROC; 民前541年
Nanakshahi calendar	−97
Thai solar calendar	1913–1914
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 1497 or 1116 or 344; — to —; 阴金猪年; (female Iron-Pig); 1498 or 1117 or 345

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century; 14th century ; 15th century;
Decades:	1350s; 1360s; 1370s ; 1380s; 1390s;
Years:	1368; 1369; 1370; 1371 ; 1372; 1373; 1374;

Year 1371 (MCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January – Edward, the Black Prince, gives up the administration of Aquitaine and returns to England, because of his poor health and heavy debts.
February 17 – Rival brothers Ivan Sratsimir and Ivan Shishman become co-Emperors of Bulgaria after the death of their father, Ivan Alexander. Bulgaria is weakened by the split.
February 22 – Robert II becomes the first Stuart king of Scotland, after the death of his uncle, David II.
March 28 – The London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery, is founded in Aldersgate.
April 9 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan succeeds Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, becoming the 5th and last Emperor of the Northern Court.
August 22 – Battle of Baesweiler: Brabant is unexpectedly defeated by the Duchy of Jülich.
September 21 – John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III of England, marries Constance of Castile, daughter of King Pedro of Castile, giving John a claim to the throne of Castile.
September 26 – Battle of Maritsa: Most of the nobility in Serbia are killed by the Ottomans.
December – Lazar succeeds his distant cousin, Stefan Uroš V, as ruler of Serbia, but declines the title of Tsar.

The first widely accepted historical reference is made to playing cards (in Spain).^[1]
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).