1338
Year 1338 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.Events
Date unknown
Births
- January 13 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar
- January 21 – Charles V of France
- February 3 – Joanna of Bourbon, queen consort of France
- March 23 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan, Northern Court emperor during a conflict between two imperial lines
- October 5 – Alexios III of Trebizond
- November 29 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
- date unknown
- * George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March
- * Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
- * Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara
- * Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros
- * Margaret de Stafford
- * Tvrtko I of Bosnia
Deaths
- April 8 – Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London
- April 24 – Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat
- May – John Wishart, Scottish bishop
- May 5 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor
- May 23 – Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble
- June 10 – Kitabatake Akiie, Japanese governor
- July – Muhammad Khan, Persian monarch
- August 4 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
- August 17 – Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai
- August 22 – William II, Duke of Athens
- 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
- * Nitta Yoshiaki, Japanese samurai
- probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese shōgun