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

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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 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

  • January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
  • January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
  • February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)
  • March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, a 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
  • George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March (d. 1420)
  • Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (d. 1391)
  • Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1388)
  • Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros (d. 1383)
  • Margaret de Stafford (d. 1396)
  • Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)

    • 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)
  • June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; died 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; died 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 Shogun (b. 1325)

    • References

    1338 Wikipedia
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