1038

Year 1038 (MXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

1038 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1038 MXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1791
Armenian calendar	487 ԹՎ ՆՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	5788
Balinese saka calendar	959–960
Bengali calendar	444–445
Berber calendar	1988
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1582
Burmese calendar	400
Byzantine calendar	6546–6547
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3735 or 3528     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3736 or 3529
Coptic calendar	754–755
Discordian calendar	2204
Ethiopian calendar	1030–1031
Hebrew calendar	4798–4799
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1094–1095
- Shaka Samvat	959–960
- Kali Yuga	4138–4139
Holocene calendar	11038
Igbo calendar	38–39
Iranian calendar	416–417
Islamic calendar	429–430
Japanese calendar	Chōryaku 2 (長暦２年)
Javanese calendar	941–942
Julian calendar	1038 MXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3371
Minguo calendar	874 before ROC 民前874年
Nanakshahi calendar	−430
Seleucid era	1349/1350 AG
Thai solar calendar	1580–1581
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 1164 or 783 or 11     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1165 or 784 or 12

Peter Orseolo becomes king of Hungary

Events

By place

Europe

• August 15 – On the death of his uncle, Stephen I, Peter Orseolo becomes the second ruler of Hungary.
• August – A battle occurs near the town of Alfuente, Andalucia, between the Taifa of Granada and the Taifa of Almeria, as described by the Jewish poet Samuel ibn Naghrela.
• Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ("the Elder") travels to Southern Italy and holds court in Troia. He orders Pandulf IV of Capua to restore the territories of Monte Cassino. Pandulf holes himself up in the fortress of Sant'Agata de' Goti, and dispatches tribute (300 lb of gold) and his son as hostage to Troia as a token of peace. Conrad accepts his offer, but the son escapes. Conrad goes on the offensive and seizes Capua, and gives it to Guaimar IV of Salerno.
• Duke John II drives his brother Manso II and his mother Maria out of Amalfi. He has Manso blinded and exiled to the island of Sirenuse. John reconciles with Maria, and allows her to remain as co-ruler of Amalfi.
• Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia invades Poland. He captures and destroys the cities of Gniezno and Poznań.
• The name of Versailles, at this time a small village, appears for the first time in a medieval charter in France.

Asia

• January 9 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimated 32,300.^[1]
• November 10 – Li Yuanhao proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Xia, declaring independence from the Song dynasty in China.^[2]

Births

• Ibn Butlan, Arab Nestorian Christian physician (d. 1075)
• Isaac ibn Ghiyyat, Jewish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1089)
• Rostislav of Tmutarakan, Kievan Rus' prince (d. 1066)
• Sancho Garcés, Lord of Uncastillo, Spanish nobleman (approximate date)

Deaths

• March – William VI, Duke of Aquitaine, French nobleman (b. 1004)
• March 28 – Hai Gaon, Jewish theologian (b. 939)
• April 23 – Liudolf of Brunswick, margrave of Frisia
• May 4 – Gotthard, bishop of Hildesheim (b. 960)
• May 22 – Shibl al-Dawla Nasr, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
• July 6 – Ōnakatomi no Sukechika, Japanese poet (b. 954)
• July 18 – Gunhilda of Denmark, queen consort of Germany
• July – Herman IV, duke of Swabia (House of Babenberg)
• August 15 – Stephen I, king of Hungary
• November 1 – Herman I, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman
• December 3 – Emma of Lesum, German noblewoman
• December 20 – Beorhtheah, bishop of Worcester
• Aethelnoth, archbishop of Canterbury
• Alice of Normandy, countess of Burgundy
• Al-Tha'alibi, Persian historian (b. 961)
• Budic of Nantes, French nobleman
• Ealdred, ealdorman of Bamburgh, murdered
• Ermengol II ("the Pilgrim"), count of Urgell
• Farrukhi Sistani, Persian poet (or 1037)
• Felix of Rhuys, Breton Benedictine abbot
• Habbus al-Muzaffar, Zirid ruler of Granada
• Kyiso, Burmese king of the Pagan Dynasty
• Ralph III of Valois (or Raoul), French nobleman