1338

1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1338th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 338th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 14th century, and the 9th year of the 1330s decade. As of the start of 1338, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1338 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1338 MCCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2091
Armenian calendar	787 ԹՎ ՉՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	6088
Balinese saka calendar	1259–1260
Bengali calendar	745
Berber calendar	2288
English Regnal year	11 Edw. 3 – 12 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1882
Burmese calendar	700
Byzantine calendar	6846–6847
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4034 or 3974     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4035 or 3975
Coptic calendar	1054–1055
Discordian calendar	2504
Ethiopian calendar	1330–1331
Hebrew calendar	5098–5099
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1394–1395
- Shaka Samvat	1259–1260
- Kali Yuga	4438–4439
Holocene calendar	11338
Igbo calendar	338–339
Iranian calendar	716–717
Islamic calendar	738–739
Japanese calendar	Shōkei 7 / Ryakuō 1 (暦応元年)
Javanese calendar	1250–1251
Julian calendar	1338 MCCCXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3671
Minguo calendar	574 before ROC 民前574年
Nanakshahi calendar	−130
Thai solar calendar	1880–1881
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 1464 or 1083 or 311     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1465 or 1084 or 312

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