1337
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This article is about the year 1337. For the internet subculture term, see leet.
| 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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| 1337 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1337 MCCCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2090 |
| Armenian calendar | 786 ?? ??? |
| Assyrian calendar | 6087 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -507–-506 |
| 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 | ????????? (3973/4033-11-29) — to —
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| Coptic calendar | 1053–1054 |
| 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 |
| Iranian calendar | 715–716 |
| Islamic calendar | 737–738 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1337 MCCCXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3670 |
| Minguo calendar | 575 before ROC ??575? |
| Thai solar calendar | 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.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–December
- March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince is crowned Duke of Cornwall.
[edit] Date unknown
- The Hundred Years' War (c. 1337–1453) begins between France and England.
- Philip VI of France confiscates Aquitaine.
- Bisham Priory is founded in England.
- The Scaligeri family loses control of Padua; Alberto della Scala, music patron of the Italian Trecento, moves to Verona.
- Francesco Petrarca (often considered the first man of the Renaissance) 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.
[edit] Births
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian Painter (b. 1267)
- June 7 – William III, Count of Hainaut
- June 25 – Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
- date unknown
- Angelo da Clareno, Italian Franciscan (b. 1247)
- Mansa Musa, 14th century King of the Malian Empire
