Ming banknote
AD 1375 · Resource
A large mulberry-bark paper banknote (Da Ming Baochao) first issued in 1375 under the Hongwu Emperor. An early experiment in state fiat paper money that later collapsed into inflation.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1375
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Battle of Agincourt (1415)
- Brunelleschi's dome of Florence Cathedral (1420)
- Black Death (1346)
- Zheng He's treasure voyages (1405)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Ming dynasty begins (1368)
- Black Plague reaches Europe (1347)