1337

	1337 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
	Art - Literature - Music - Science
	Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
	Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century - 14th century - 15th century
Decades:	1300s 1310s 1320s - 1330s - 1340s 1350s 1360s
Years:	1334 1335 1336 - 1337 - 1338 1339 1340

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Year 1337 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1337

March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince is created Duke of Cornwall.
The Hundred Years' War (c. 1337-1453) begins between France and England.
Philip VI of France confiscates Aquitaine.
Bisham Priory is founded in England.
The Scaligeri family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, music patron of the Italian Trecento, moves to Veronica.
Francesco Petrarca (often considered the first man of the Renaissance) first visits Rome, to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.
The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.

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January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian Painter (b. 1267)
June 7 – William III, Count of Hainaut
June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
date unknown
- Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan (b. 1247)
- Mansa Musa, 14th century King of the Malinese Empire

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