1338

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

Events

 * October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.

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, England.
 * Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of shōgun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga Shogunate.
 * Nicomedia is captured by the Ottoman Empire.
 * A Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.

Births

 * January 13 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
 * January 21 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
 * February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France (d. 1378)
 * March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, 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)
 * May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (b. 1287)
 * June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor (b. 1318; d. 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; d. 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 shōgun (b. 1325)