1138

This article is about the year 1138. For the number (and other uses), see 1138 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1135 1136 1137 – 1138 – 1139 1140 1141

1138 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1138 in poetry

1138 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1138 MCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1891
Armenian calendar	587 ԹՎ ՇՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	5888
Bahá'í calendar	-706–-705
Bengali calendar	545
Berber calendar	2088
English Regnal year	3 Ste. 1 – 4 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1682
Burmese calendar	500
Byzantine calendar	6646–6647
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十一月十八日 (3774/3834-11-18) — to — 戊午年十一月廿八日 (3775/3835-11-28)
Coptic calendar	854–855
Ethiopian calendar	1130–1131
Hebrew calendar	4898–4899
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1194–1195
- Shaka Samvat	1060–1061
- Kali Yuga	4239–4240
Holocene calendar	11138
Iranian calendar	516–517
Islamic calendar	532–533
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3471
Minguo calendar	774 before ROC 民前774年
Thai solar calendar	1681

Year 1138 (MCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• March 13 – Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• August 22 – Battle of the Standard: David I of Scotland is defeated by the English.
• October 11 – A deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria kills about 230,000 people. See 1138 Aleppo earthquake.
• Conrad III of Germany becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
• A castle in Scotland successfully defeats a siege despite being held by only nine knights.
• The earldom of Pembroke, created for Gilbert de Clare, is the first earldom created by the Norman kings within the borders of Wales.
• First mention of the consuls of Florence, indicating that the city has become an independent and self-govern commune.

Births

• March 28 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
• Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)
• Casimir II of Poland (d. 1194)
• Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)
• Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

• January 13 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
• January 25 – Antipope Anacletus II
• William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
• Ibn Bajjah, Andalusian philosopher
• King Boleslaus III the Wrymouth of Poland