38 BC

Year 38 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Flaccus.

38 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	38 BC XXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	716
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 286
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 14
Ancient Greek era	185th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4713
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−630
Berber calendar	913
Buddhist calendar	507
Burmese calendar	−675
Byzantine calendar	5471–5472
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2659 or 2599     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2660 or 2600
Coptic calendar	−321 – −320
Discordian calendar	1129
Ethiopian calendar	−45 – −44
Hebrew calendar	3723–3724
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	19–20
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3063–3064
Holocene calendar	9963
Iranian calendar	659 BP – 658 BP
Islamic calendar	679 BH – 678 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	38 BC XXXVII BC
Korean calendar	2296
Minguo calendar	1949 before ROC 民前1949年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1505
Seleucid era	274/275 AG
Thai solar calendar	505–506
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 89 or −292 or −1064     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 90 or −291 or −1063

38 BC was year 1 of the Spanish era calendar that was used in Hispania until the 15th century.

Events

• Octavian Caesar marries Livia. She is still pregnant from a recent marriage.
• Octavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul
• Parthia invades Syria

Births

• Nero Claudius Drusus (d. 9 BC)

Deaths

• Orodes II of Parthia
• Pacorus, crownprince of Parthia