This page relates to the year 1338 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

• With the Japan, the shôgunat is restored by the family Ashikaga.
• Ashikaga Takauji (1305 - 1358) control surface with Kyôto, while a representative of a branch junior by his family exerts the load of vice-shogun with Kamakura. For the period of the Dynasties of North and South (1338 - 1392), holding them of the two imperial lines devastate the center of the Japan by ceaseless fatal fights.

• Reign of Yisuntémur, khan of the Mogholistan (fine in 1339).

• Chinese Incursions into the Himalayan kingdoms of the India. A whole army of the sultan of Delhi is lost in a forwarding with the Garhwal, in the the Himalayas, is destroyed by the Tibetans. The Bengal benefits from it to make secession.
• Diplomatic relations between the Bengal and the China. The port of Chittagong becomes a center of important trade with the Far East.
• Voyage in India of Venetian the Giovanni Loredan says “Vacha” by Tana and the Hindu-Kouch.

Europe

• April 13rd: Jacob Van Artevelde is victorious of the count de Flandre Louis of Nevers in front of the castle of Biervliet. In summer, Louis must flee the Flanders, fallen between the hands from the insurrectionists ordered by Jacob Van Artevelde.

• With Visegrád, the prince Georges II of Galicie-Volhynie appoints the king Casimir III of Poland like successor.

• the clergy of Hungary sends to the pope a register of grievances to protest against the suppression of many privileges, the imposition of the ecclesiastical fields, the confiscation of the properties become vacant, the aggravation of the military obligations of the clergy and its loads for the construction of the fortifications. Carobert assumes the right to allot the titles and ecclesiastical emoluments to its clean faithful, up to the point to name bishop of Györ his Koloman son, born except marriage.

• Edouard III of England meets Louis IV of Bavaria to Coblentz.

Art & culture

• Effects of the good and the bad government , the painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338-1339).
• Philostrate ( It filostrato , v. 1338), poem in ottava rima of Boccace.
• Established with Kyôto in the suburb of Muromachi, the Shoguns Ashikaga hold an extremely brilliant court a little, with the manner of the courses Italian of the Renaissance. Under the influence of the culture Song, architecture is refined to the extreme (Money and Gold Houses), a new painting, marrying on gold funds the bright colors, blazes on the partitions of the residences while, in austere houses learnedly rustic, are worked out the rites of the Cérémonie of the.

Economy & company

• 110.000 to 120.000 inhabitants with Venice (60 000 in 1382).

Births in 1338

• January 21st: Charles V Wise the, king de France, born in Vincennes

Death in 1338

Be-X-old: 1338 Map-bms: 1338 Simple: 1338