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A "Hundred Years' War" between England and France begins as the Valois family challenges England's Plantagenet family's claim to be the rightful rulers of France. Philippe VI has announced that he is seizing Gascony (see 1303) and contests English claims to Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and other French territories. Basing his claim either on the possibility of an alliance with Flemish rebels or a desire to free Aquitaine from any obligation to pay homage to the French crown, England's Edward III denies Philippe's legitimacy, assumes the title King of France, and orders Philippe to yield his throne. Edward gains support from the townspeople of Flanders, who depend on English wool for their industry, and from the City of London, whose officials are concerned about French influence in its Flemish market (see 1338; wool embargo, 1336).
Poland's Casimir III swears an oath relinquishing Pomerania and Pomerellen for all eternity in a conference held at Leslau (see 1335). Those attending include Bohemia's king Johann, the Holy Roman Emperor Ludwig II, and the grand master of the Teutonic Knights Dietrich von Altenburg, but once again the Polish bishops and nobility reject their king's cession of territory, and the pope is asked to decide the issue (see 1343).
Nicomedia (Ismid) falls to the Ottoman Turks.
Mali's Mansa Musa I dies after a 30-year reign in which he has amassed a fortune in gold, commissioned great mosques (whose architects were paid in gold dust), been entertained at his court by poets dressed in thrushes' feathers with wooden heads and red beaks, and ordered the execution of anyone who wore sandals or sneezed in his presence.
English merchants contribute 20,000 sacks of wool as a gift to pay the expenses of Edward III. The merchants depend on receipts from the sale of their wool at Bruges and Ghent to pay for the casks of wine they import from Bordeaux.
Painter Giotto di Bondone dies at Florence January 8 at age 69.
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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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| 1337 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1337 MCCCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2090 |
| Armenian calendar | 786 ԹՎ ՉՁԶ |
| 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 | 丙子年十一月廿九日 (3973/4033-11-29) — to —
丁丑年十二月初九日(3974/4034-12-9) |
| 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 民前575年 |
| 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.
Events
January–December
- March 16 – Edward, the Black Prince is crowned Duke of Cornwall.
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.
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)
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
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