938

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	910s 920s 930s 940s 950s
Years:	935 936 937 938 939 940 941

938 in variouscalendars

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

Portrait ofLady IsebyKanō Tan'yū(1648).

Year938(CMXXXVIII) was acommon year starting on Monday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• 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.He signs a "friendship pact" with KingLouis IV( "d'Outremer" ) of theWest Frankish Kingdom.

Asia

• 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

• 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

• 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)