1338
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Year 1338 (MCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.
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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.
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