1338

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1300s  1310s  1320s  – 1330s –  1340s  1350s  1360s
Years:	1335 1336 1337 – 1338 – 1339 1340 1341

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