938

Year 938 (CMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

938 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	938 CMXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1691
Armenian calendar	387 ԹՎ ՅՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	5688
Balinese saka calendar	859–860
Bengali calendar	344–345
Berber calendar	1888
Buddhist calendar	1482
Burmese calendar	300
Byzantine calendar	6446–6447
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3635 or 3428     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 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	Jōhei 8 / Tengyō 1 (天慶元年)
Javanese calendar	838–839
Julian calendar	938 CMXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3271
Minguo calendar	974 before ROC 民前974年
Nanakshahi calendar	−530
Seleucid era	1249/1250 AG
Thai solar calendar	1480–1481
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 1064 or 683 or −89     — to — ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 1065 or 684 or −88

Portrait of Lady Ise by Kanō Tan'yū (1648).

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – The Hungarian army invades Northern Italy with the permission of King Hugh of Arles. They cross the Apennines, and sack the Lombard lands in Tuscany, Lazio and Campania. Finally, the Hungarians are defeated at Wolfenbüttel by a Saxon army.
• July – King Otto I besieges the fortress of Eresburg. He defeats his half-brother Thankmar and kills him as he tries to find sanctuary. Eberhard III, duke of Franconia, is banished and replaced by his uncle Berthold.
• Fall – Otto I defeats in two campaigns a series of uprisings in Saxony, Franconia and Lotharingia.^[1] He signs a "friendship pact" with King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") of the West Frankish Kingdom.

Asia

• Battle of Bach Dang: Tĩnh Hải Quân forces under the rule of Ngô Quyền defeated an invading force of the Southern Han state at the Bach Dang River. This put an end to Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam after nearly 1,000 years.^[2]
• The Sixteen Prefectures, which includes the area around modern-day Beijing, are absorbed in the Khitan Empire.

Births

• September 14 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Buyid grand vizier (d. 995)
• Almanzor, Umayyad vizier and de facto ruler (approximate date)
• Beatrice of France, duchess regent of Upper Lorraine (approximate date)
• García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava (approximate date)
• Olaf the Peacock, Icelandic merchant and chieftain (approximate date)
• Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
• Sancho II, king of Navarre (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 3 – Zhou Ben, general of Wu (b. 862)
• July 28 – Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I (during the Siege of Eresburg)
• Lady Ise, Japanese noblewoman and poet (b. 875) (approximate date)
• Lady Peng, noblewoman of Chu (Ten Kingdoms)
• Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti, Abbasid theologian
• Shen Song, chancellor of Wuyue (b. 863)