938
Year 938 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
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. He signs a "friendship pact" with King Louis IV 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.
- 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
- Almanzor, Umayyad vizier and de facto ruler
- Beatrice of France, duchess regent of Upper Lorraine
- García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava
- Olaf the Peacock, Icelandic merchant and chieftain
- Romanos II, Byzantine emperor
- Sancho II, king of Navarre
Deaths
- February 3 - Zhou Ben, general of Wu
- July 28 - Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I
- Lady Ise, Japanese noblewoman and poet
- Lady Peng, noblewoman of Chu
- Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti, Abbasid theologian
- Shen Song, chancellor of Wuyue