1038

1038 (MXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1038th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 38th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 11th century, and the 9th year of the 1030s decade. As of the start of 1038, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1000s  1010s  1020s  – 1030s –  1040s  1050s  1060s
Years:	1035 1036 1037 – 1038 – 1039 1040 1041

1038 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1038 MXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1791
Armenian calendar	487 ԹՎ ՆՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	5788
Balinese saka calendar	959–960
Bengali calendar	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) 3734 or 3674     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3735 or 3675
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	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1164 or 783 or 11     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1165 or 784 or 12

Events

By place

Europe

• The name of Versailles, then a small village, appears for the first time in a Medieval charter.
• In the Muslim kingdom of Zaragoza, the ruling Banu Tujibi family is removed by Suleiman Al-Mustain I ibn Hud who starts the Huddid dynasty which rules over the region for a century (possibly 1039).

Asia

• The Western Xia declare their independence from Liao China.

Deaths

• August 15 – Saint Stephen I, first king of Hungary
• October 29 – Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Alhazen, Persian mathematician
• William VI of Aquitaine