938

Year 938 (CMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – The
  Apennines, and sack the Lombard lands in Tuscany, Lazio and Campania. Finally, the Hungarians are defeated at Wolfenbüttel
  by a Saxon army.
• 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.^[1] He signs a "friendship pact" with King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") of the West Frankish Kingdom.

Asia

• 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 (d. 995)
• Almanzor, Umayyad vizier and de facto ruler (approximate date)
• Beatrice of France, duchess regent of Upper Lorraine (approximate date)
• García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava (approximate date)
• Olaf the Peacock, Icelandic merchant and chieftain (approximate date)
• Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
• Sancho II, king of Navarre (approximate date)

Deaths

• Wu (b. 862
  )
• Otto I (during the Siege of Eresburg
  )
• Lady Ise, Japanese noblewoman and poet (b. 875) (approximate date)
• Ten Kingdoms
  )
• Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Khara'iti, Abbasid theologian
• Shen Song, chancellor of Wuyue (b. 863)

References