1338
Year 1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
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| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 1338 MCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2091 |
| Armenian calendar | 787 ԹՎ ՉՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6088 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1259–1260 |
| 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 (Fire Ox) 4035 or 3828 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4036 or 3829 |
| Coptic calendar | 1054–1055 |
| Discordian calendar | 2504 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1330–1331 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5098–5099 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1394–1395 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1259–1260 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4438–4439 |
| Holocene calendar | 11338 |
| Igbo calendar | 338–339 |
| Iranian calendar | 716–717 |
| Islamic calendar | 738–739 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōkei 7 / Ryakuō 1 (暦応元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1250–1251 |
| Julian calendar | 1338 MCCCXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3671 |
| Minguo calendar | 574 before ROC 民前574年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −130 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1880–1881 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1464 or 1083 or 311 — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1465 or 1084 or 312 |
Events
- October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.
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, England.
- Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of shōgun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga Shogunate.
- Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.
- A Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.
Births
- January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
- January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
- February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)
- March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374)
- October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
- November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
- date unknown
Deaths
- April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
- April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
- May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
- May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
- May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)
- June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle)
- July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
- August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
- August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle)
- August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312)
- December 21 – Thomas Hemenhale, Bishop of Worcester
- date unknown
- Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble
- Awhadi Maraghai, Persian poet
- Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (b. c. 1260)
- Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai
- probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun (b. 1325)
References
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