838
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 800s 810s 820s – 830s – 840s 850s 860s |
| Years: | 835 836 837 – 838 – 839 840 841 |
| 838 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 838 DCCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1591 |
| Armenian calendar | 287 ԹՎ ՄՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5588 |
| Bengali calendar | 245 |
| Berber calendar | 1788 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1382 |
| Burmese calendar | 200 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6346–6347 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3534 or 3474 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3535 or 3475 |
| Coptic calendar | 554–555 |
| Discordian calendar | 2004 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 830–831 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4598–4599 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 894–895 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 760–761 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3939–3940 |
| Holocene calendar | 10838 |
| Iranian calendar | 216–217 |
| Islamic calendar | 223–224 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 5 (承和５年) |
| Julian calendar | 838 DCCCXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3171 |
| Minguo calendar | 1074 before ROC 民前1074年 |
| Seleucid era | 1149/1150 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1380–1381 |
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Year 838 (DCCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- July 22 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos is heavily defeated at the Battle of Anzen by the Abbasids. Caliph al-Mu'tasim then proceeds to capture and raze Amorium, the native city of the Byzantine Empire's reigning Amorian dynasty.
- Mid-August – Arab–Byzantine wars: Sack of Amorium by the Abbasid Caliphate.
- Discovery of a conspiracy to assassinate Caliph Mu'tasim and place his nephew Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun on the throne. A widespread purge of the army follows, which cements the leading role of the Turkish ghilman in the Abbasid military establishment.
- Yezidi uprising against the Abbasids.[1]
Europe
- At the Battle of Hingston Down, Egbert of Wessex beats the Danish and the West Welsh (Cornish).
- The Stone of Destiny is placed at Scone Palace, Scotland.
- Rheine is founded on the Ems River.
- A royal meeting between Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, King of Cashel and Niall, King of the Southern Uí Neill and Tara at Cluain-Conaire-Tommain, results in Feidlimid becoming High-King of Ireland, according to the Annals of Inisfallen.
By topic
Religion
Births
- Al-Tabari, physician, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
- Alfonso III of Leon
Deaths
- Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun, Abbasid prince and general
- Pepin I of Aquitaine, son of Louis the Pious, King of Aquitaine
References
- ↑ M. Th. Houtsma, 1993, E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936: Volume 4 - Page 1136, Brill