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| 1338 |
| | | The first Dalai Lama dies in 1338 and is discovered to have been reincarnated in a boy born in 1340 | |
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| 1346 |
| | | The plague which later becomes known as the Black Death makes its first appearance in China | |
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| c. 1350 |
| | | The classic Chinese underglaze blue is perfected in the imperial ceramic factory at Jingdezhen | |
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| 1356 |
| | | Chu Yüan-chang, leader of a peasant band, makes his headquarters in a town which he renames Nanking - 'southern capital' | |
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| 1368 |
| | | Chu Yüan-chang drives the Mongols out of Beijing and declares a new dynasty - the Ming (meaning 'brilliant') | |
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| 1368 |
| | | On the fall of the Yuan dynasty, replaced by the Ming, Tibet declares its independence from China | |
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| 1374 |
| | | Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre | |
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| c. 1380 |
| | | Koreans establish the first type foundry, casting movable type in bronze | |
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| 1392 |
| | | Yi Song-gye founds the Yi dynasty, which rules in Korea until the twentieth century | |
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| 1397 |
| | | The Golden Pavilion in Kyoto is built by the shogun Yoshimitsu as his own villa | |
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