938
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Leaders |
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Gregorian calendar | 938 CMXXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1691 |
Armenian calendar | 387 ԹՎ ՅՁԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 5688 |
Balinese saka calendar | 859–860 |
Bengali calendar | 345 |
Berber calendar | 1888 |
Buddhist calendar | 1482 |
Burmese calendar | 300 |
Byzantine calendar | 6446–6447 |
Chinese calendar | Đinh DậuNăm (FireRooster) 3635 or 3428 — to — Mậu Tuất năm (EarthDog) 3636 or 3429 |
Coptic calendar | 654–655 |
Discordian calendar | 2104 |
Ethiopian calendar | 930–931 |
Hebrew calendar | 4698–4699 |
Hindu calendars | |
-Vikram Samvat | 994–995 |
-Shaka Samvat | 859–860 |
-Kali Yuga | 4038–4039 |
Holocene calendar | 10938 |
Iranian calendar | 316–317 |
Islamic calendar | 326–327 |
Japanese calendar | Jōhei8 /Tengyō1 ( thiên khánh nguyên niên ) |
Javanese calendar | 838–839 |
Julian calendar | 938 CMXXXVIII |
Korean calendar | 3271 |
Minguo calendar | 974 beforeROC Dân trước 974 năm |
Nanakshahi calendar | −530 |
Seleucid era | 1249/1250AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1480–1481 |
Tibetan calendar | Âm hỏa gà năm (female Fire-Rooster) 1064 or 683 or −89 — to — Dương thổ cẩu năm (male Earth-Dog) 1065 or 684 or −88 |
Year938(CMXXXVIII) was acommon year starting on Monday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]Europe
[edit]- Summer – TheHungarianarmy invades NorthernItalywith the permission of KingHugh of Arles.They cross theApennines,and sack theLombardlands inTuscany,LazioandCampania.Finally, the Hungarians are defeated atWolfenbüttelby a Saxon army.
- July– KingOtto Ibesieges the fortress ofEresburg.He defeats his half-brotherThankmarand kills him as he tries to find sanctuary.Eberhard III,duke ofFranconia,is banished and replaced by his uncleBerthold.
- Fall – Otto I defeats in two campaigns a series of uprisings inSaxony,Franconia andLotharingia.[1]He signs a "friendship pact" with KingLouis IV( "d'Outremer" ) of theWest Frankish Kingdom.
Asia
[edit]- Battle of Bach Dang:Vietnamese forces defeat an invading force of theSouthern Hanstate at theBach Dang River.This put an end toChineseimperial domination inVietnamafter nearly 1,000 years.
- TheSixteen Prefectures,which includes the area around modern-dayBeijing,are absorbed in theKhitan Empire.
Births
[edit]- September 14–Sahib ibn Abbad,Buyidgrand vizier(d.995)
- Almanzor,Umayyadvizierandde factoruler (approximate date)
- Beatrice of France,duchessregentof UpperLorraine(approximate date)
- García Fernández,count ofCastileandÁlava(approximate date)
- Olaf the Peacock,Icelandicmerchantand chieftain (approximate date)
- Romanos II,Byzantine emperor (d.963)
- Sancho II,king ofNavarre(approximate date)
Deaths
[edit]- February 3–Zhou Ben,general ofWu(b.862)
- July 28–Thankmar,half-brother ofOtto I(during the Siege ofEresburg)
- Lady Ise,Japanesenoblewomanandpoet(b.875) (approximate date)
- Lady Peng,noblewoman ofChu(Ten Kingdoms)
- Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti,Abbasid theologian
- Shen Song,chancellor ofWuyue(b.863)
References
[edit]- ^Timothy Reuter (1999).The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III,p. 245.ISBN978-0-521-36447-8.