1338

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1300s  1310s  1320s  – 1330s –  1340s  1350s  1360s
Years:	1335 1336 1337 – 1338 – 1339 1340 1341

1338 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

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Year 1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1338

• Hundred Years' War: Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor appoints Edward III of England as a vicar-general of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis supports Edward's claim to the French throne under the terms of the Treaty of Koblenz.
• Philip VI of France besieges Guienne in Southwest France and his navy attacks Portsmouth in England.
• Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga shogunate.
• Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.

1338 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1338 MCCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2091
Armenian calendar	787 ԹՎ ՉՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-506 – -505
Berber calendar	2288
Buddhist calendar	1882
Burmese calendar	700
Byzantine calendar	6846 – 6847
Chinese calendar	丁丑年十二月初十日 (3974/4034-12-10) — to — 戊寅年十一月二十日 (3975/4035-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1054 – 1055
Ethiopian calendar	1330 – 1331
Hebrew calendar	5098 – 5099
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1393 – 1394
- Shaka Samvat	1260 – 1261
- Kali Yuga	4439 – 4440
Holocene calendar	11338
Iranian calendar	716 – 717
Islamic calendar	738 – 739
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3671
Thai solar calendar	1881
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[edit] Births

• 21 January – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
• 3 February – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)
• 5 October – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
• 29 November – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
• date unknown
  • George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)
  • Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391)
  • Niccolò II d'Este (d. 1388)
  • Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)
  • Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396)
  • Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)
  • France

Also see Category:1338 births.

[edit] Deaths

• 8 April – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
• 24 April – Theodore I of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
• May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
• 5 May – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
• July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
• 4 August – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
• 22 August – William II of Athens (b. 1312)
• 21 December – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester
• date unknown
  • Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318)
  • Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble
  • Awhadi of Maragheh, Persian poet
  • Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260)
  • Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai
  • Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
• probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shogun (b. 1325)

Also see Category:1338 deaths.