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This article is about the year 1338.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1300s 1310s 1320s – 1330s – 1340s 1350s 1360s |
| Years: | 1335 1336 1337 – 1338 – 1339 1340 1341 |
| 1338 by topic | |
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| 1338 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1338 MCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2091 |
| Armenian calendar | 787 ԹՎ ՉՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6088 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -506–-505 |
| Bengali calendar | 745 |
| Berber calendar | 2288 |
| English Regnal year | 11 Edw. 3 – 12 Edw. 3 |
| 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 | 1394–1395 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1260–1261 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4439–4440 |
| Holocene calendar | 11338 |
| Iranian calendar | 716–717 |
| Islamic calendar | 738–739 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1338 MCCCXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3671 |
| Minguo calendar | 574 before ROC 民前574年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1881 |
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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
[edit] Date unknown
- 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.
[edit] Births
- January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
- February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)
- October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
- November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths
- April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
- April 24 – Theodore I of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
- May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
- May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
- July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
- August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
- August 22 – William II of Athens (b. 1312)
- December 21 – 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)
