1337

Year 1337 (MCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1337 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1337
MCCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2090
Armenian calendar786
ԹՎ ՉՁԶ
Assyrian calendar6087
Balinese saka calendar1258–1259
Bengali calendar744
Berber calendar2287
English Regnal year10 Edw. 3  11 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar1881
Burmese calendar699
Byzantine calendar6845–6846
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4033 or 3973
     to 
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4034 or 3974
Coptic calendar1053–1054
Discordian calendar2503
Ethiopian calendar1329–1330
Hebrew calendar5097–5098
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1393–1394
 - Shaka Samvat1258–1259
 - Kali Yuga4437–4438
Holocene calendar11337
Igbo calendar337–338
Iranian calendar715–716
Islamic calendar737–738
Japanese calendarShōkei 6
(正慶6年)
Javanese calendar1249–1250
Julian calendar1337
MCCCXXXVII
Korean calendar3670
Minguo calendar575 before ROC
民前575年
Nanakshahi calendar−131
Thai solar calendar1879–1880
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1463 or 1082 or 310
     to 
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1464 or 1083 or 311

Events

JanuaryDecember

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 aesthetics as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.
  • The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria.
  • The famine in China, which had lasted since 1332 and killed 6,000,000 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)
    • Bianca of Savoy, lady consort of Milan (d. 1387)
    • Jeong Mong-ju, Goryeo diplomat and poet (d. 1392)
    • Robert III of Scotland, second monarch from the House of Stewart to rule Scotland (d. 1406)

Deaths

  • January 8 Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter (b. 1267)
  • June 7 William I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1286)
  • June 15 Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan and leader of a group of Fraticelli (b. 1247)
  • June 25 Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
  • June 30 Eleanor de Clare, politically active English noble (b. 1290)
  • date unknown
    • William Frangipani, Latin Archbishop of Patras
    • Musa I of Mali, ruler of the Malian Empire (b. c.1280)
    • Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shōgun (b. 1326, d. either 1337 or 1344, the sources are contradictory)

References

  1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 100–102. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 159–161. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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