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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.

commerce

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.

art

Painter Giotto di Bondone dies at Florence January 8 at age 69.

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Earth science

William Merlee of Oxford University, England, tries to forecast the weather. See also 330 bce Earth science; 1869 Earth science.


A common synonym for leetspeak. The 1337 represents the letters l-e-e-t. See leetspeak.

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1337 in poetry
1337 in other calendars
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


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

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