1038

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

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

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