1338

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

1338 in various calendars
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) 4034 or 3974 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4035 or 3975
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

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

Events

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.

Births

January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)^[1]
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
- George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)
- Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391)
- Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388)
- Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)
- Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396)
- Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)

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

^ "Charles V | king of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved August 22, 2018.

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