1337

This article is about the year 1337. For the internet subculture term, see leet.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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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1337 in various calendars
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	1258–1259
- Kali Yuga	4437–4438
Holocene calendar	11337
Igbo calendar	337–338
Iranian calendar	715–716
Islamic calendar	737–738
Japanese calendar	Shōkei 6 (正慶６年)
Javanese calendar	1249–1250
Julian calendar	1337 MCCCXXXVII
Korean calendar	3670
Minguo calendar	575 before ROC 民前575年
Nanakshahi calendar	−131
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

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.

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.

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)

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

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
1 2 3 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.

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