1338

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

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.

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

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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)

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