1338
Calendar year
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Year 1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- October 5 â 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 shÅgun 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.[1]
Births
- January 13 â ChÅng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
- January 21 â Charles V of France (d. 1380)[2]
- February 3 â Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)
- March 23 â Emperor Go-KÅgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines (d. 1374)
- October 5 â Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
- November 29 â Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (d. 1368)
- date unknown
Deaths
- April 8 â Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
- April 24 â Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. c. 1270)
- May â John Wishart, Scottish bishop
- May 5 â Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
- May 23 â Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)
- June 10 â Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. in battle)
- July â Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
- August 4 â Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1300)
- August 17 â Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301; d. in battle)
- August 22 â William II, Duke of Athens (b. 1312)
- December 21 â 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 â Prince Narinaga, Japanese shÅgun (b. 1325)