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1338
1338
Year 1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
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 – Chŏng 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
References
- Hunt, Katie. (2022-06-15). "DNA analysis reveals source of Black Death".
- "Charles V {{!}} king of France".
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