1338

'Years:' 1335 1336 1337 - 1338 - 1339 1340 1341

'Decades:' 1300s 1310s 1320s - '1330s' - 1340s 1350s 1360s

'Centuries:' 13th century - '14th century' - 15th century

Contents

Events

Births

Unknown dates

Deaths

Unknown dates

Events

★ 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 granted title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan.

★ Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.

Births

★ 21 January - Charles V of France (died 1380)

★ 3 February - Joanna of Bourbon (died 1378)

★ 5 October - Alexios III of Trebizond (died 1390)

★ 29 November - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (died 1368)

Unknown dates

★ George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (died 1420)

★ Niccolò II d'Este (died 1388)

★ Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros (died 1383)

★ Margaret de Stafford (died 1396)

★ Tvrtko I of Bosnia (died 1391)

Deaths

★ 24 April - Theodore I of Montferrat (born c. 1270)

★ 5 May - Prince Tsunenaga, son of Japanese Emperor (born 1324)

★ July - Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch

★ 4 August - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (born 1300)

★ 22 August - William II of Athens (born 1312)

Unknown dates

★ Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (born 1318)

★ Alfonso Fadrique, Sicilian noble

★ Awhadi of Maragheh, Persian poet

★ Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shogun (born 1325)

★ Marino Sanuto the Elder, Venetian statesman and geographer (born c. 1260)

★ John Wishart, Scottish bishop

★ Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese Samurai

★ Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese Samurai