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
- Black Death (1346)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)