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Year 1337 (MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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January–December

  • March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince is created Duke of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.
  • May 24 – Philip VI of France confiscates Gascony from English control.
  • August – English forces relieve Stirling Castle, ending Edward III of England's last campaign in Scotland.
  • October – Edward III of England formally rejects Philip VI's claim to the French throne, initiating the first hostilities of what would become the Hundred Years' War between France and England.
  • November – Battle of Cadsand: English troops raid the Flemish island of Cadzand.

    • Date unknown

  • Bisham Priory is founded in England.
  • The Scaligeri family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, patron of the music of the Trecento, moves to Verona.
  • Petrarch, "father" of Renaissance humanism, first visits Rome to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.
  • The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.
  • The famine in China, which has lasted since 1333 and killed six million, comes to an end.

    • Births

  • February 25 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
  • date unknown
  • Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)
  • Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)
  • Jeong Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)

    • Deaths

  • January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter (b. 1267)
  • June 7 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
  • June 15 – Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)
  • June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
  • date unknown
  • William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras
  • Musa I of Mali, King of the Malian Empire
  • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shogun (born in 1326, died in either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory).

    • References

    1337 Wikipedia
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