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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1300s 1310s 1320s – 1330s – 1340s 1350s 1360s |
| Years: | 1334 1335 1336 – 1337 – 1338 1339 1340 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1337 MCCCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2090 |
| Armenian calendar | 786 ԹՎ ՉՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6087 |
| Bengali calendar | 744 |
| Berber calendar | 2287 |
| English Regnal year | 10 Edw. 3 – 11 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1881 |
| Burmese calendar | 699 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6845–6846 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4033 or 3973 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4034 or 3974 |
| Coptic calendar | 1053–1054 |
| Discordian calendar | 2503 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1329–1330 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5097–5098 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1393–1394 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1259–1260 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4438–4439 |
| Holocene calendar | 11337 |
| Igbo calendar | 337–338 |
| Iranian calendar | 715–716 |
| Islamic calendar | 737–738 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōkei 6 (正慶６年) |
| Julian calendar | 1337 MCCCXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3670 |
| Minguo calendar | 575 before ROC 民前575年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1879–1880 |
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Year 1337 (MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince is created Duke of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.[1]
- May 24 – Philip VI of France confiscates Gascony from English control.[2]
- August – English forces relieve Stirling Castle, ending Edward III of England's last campaign in Scotland.[2]
- October – Edward III of England formally rejects Philip VI's claim to the French throne, initiating the first hostilities of what would become the Hundred Years' War between France and England.[2][3]
- November – Battle of Cadsand: English troops raid the Flemish island of Cadzand.
Date unknown
- Bisham Priory is founded in England.
- The Scaligeri family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, patron of the music of the Trecento, moves to Verona.
- Petrarch, "father" of Renaissance humanism, first visits Rome to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.
- The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.
- The famine in China, which has lasted since 1333 and killed six million, comes to an end.
Births
- February 25 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1383)
- date unknown
- Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)
- Jean Froissart, historian and courtier from Hainaut (d. 1405)
- Jeong Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)
Deaths
- January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter (b. 1267)
- June 7 – William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
- June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
- date unknown
- Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan (b. 1247)
- Musa I of Mali, King of the Malian Empire
- William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras
References
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 100–102. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 159–161. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.