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

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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	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	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

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

Events

Emperor Conrad II (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.
The Banu Tujib clan is deposed by Al-Mustain I, who starts the Huddid Dynasty, which rules over the Taifa of Zaragoza for almost a century (approximate date).^[1]
The name of Versailles, at this time a small village, appears for the first time in a medieval charter in France.
Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia invades Poland. He captures and destroys the cities of Gniezno and Poznań.
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.

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