238

Calendar year
Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
  • 2nd century
  • 3rd century
  • 4th century
Decades:
  • 210s
  • 220s
  • 230s
  • 240s
  • 250s
Years:
  • 235
  • 236
  • 237
  • 238
  • 239
  • 240
  • 241
238 by topic
Leaders
Categories
238 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar238
CCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita991
Assyrian calendar4988
Balinese saka calendar159–160
Bengali calendar−355
Berber calendar1188
Buddhist calendar782
Burmese calendar−400
Byzantine calendar5746–5747
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
2935 or 2728
    — to —
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
2936 or 2729
Coptic calendar−46 – −45
Discordian calendar1404
Ethiopian calendar230–231
Hebrew calendar3998–3999
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat294–295
 - Shaka Samvat159–160
 - Kali Yuga3338–3339
Holocene calendar10238
Iranian calendar384 BP – 383 BP
Islamic calendar396 BH – 395 BH
Javanese calendar116–117
Julian calendar238
CCXXXVIII
Korean calendar2571
Minguo calendar1674 before ROC
民前1674年
Nanakshahi calendar−1230
Seleucid era549/550 AG
Thai solar calendar780–781
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
364 or −17 or −789
    — to —
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
365 or −16 or −788


Year 238 (CCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pius and Pontianus (or, less frequently, year 991 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 238 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

  • Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns against the Carpians on the Danube in Moesia (Balkans). In spite of the payment of a tribute, the Romans fail to persuade the Goths and the Germanic tribes.
  • c. March – Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus. The elderly Gordian yields to public demand that he succeed Maximinus and rules jointly with his 46-year-old son Gordian II.
  • c. April – Battle of Carthage: Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus invade Africa with support of Legio III Augusta.[1] Gordian II is killed and after a siege, Gordian I commits suicide by hanging himself with his belt.
  • c. May – The Senate outlaws Maximinus for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Ancient Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
  • Maximinus advances to the town Aquileia in northern Italy; his army suffers from famine and disease, while the city is besieged. Soldiers of Legio II Parthica kill him in his tent, along with his son Maximinus (who is appointed co-emperor). Their corpses are decapitated and their heads carried to Rome.
  • c. August – The Praetorian Guard storms the palace and captures Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged naked through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed the new emperor.[2] Timesitheus becomes his tutor and advisor.
  • Future Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.
  • The Colosseum is restored after being damaged.
  • The Goths, coming from Ukraine, cross the Danube and devastate the Roman Empire up to the border with Anatolia.
  • In North Africa, Legio III Augusta is dissolved. Until its reconstitution in 253, Africa is defended by auxiliary forces only.

China

By topic

Commerce


Births

  • Wen Yang (or Ciqian), Chinese general (d. 291)
  • Yang Yan (or Wuyuan), Chinese empress (d. 274)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Meckler, Michael A. (June 26, 2001). "Gordian I (238 A.D.)". Die Imperatoribus Romanis. Salve Regina University. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  2. ^ Drinkwater, John (2007). "Maximinus to Diocletian and the 'Crisis'". In Bowman, Alan K.; Garnsey, Peter; Cameron, Averil (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History: The crisis of Empire, A.D. 193–337. Vol. XII (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139054393.