1438

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century 15th century 16th century
Decades:	1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s
Years:	1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 1440 1441

1438 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1438 MCDXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2191
Armenian calendar	887 ԹՎ ՊՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	6188
Balinese saka calendar	1359–1360
Bengali calendar	845
Berber calendar	2388
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 6 – 17 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1982
Burmese calendar	800
Byzantine calendar	6946–6947
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4135 or 3928     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4136 or 3929
Coptic calendar	1154–1155
Discordian calendar	2604
Ethiopian calendar	1430–1431
Hebrew calendar	5198–5199
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1494–1495
- Shaka Samvat	1359–1360
- Kali Yuga	4538–4539
Holocene calendar	11438
Igbo calendar	438–439
Iranian calendar	816–817
Islamic calendar	841–842
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 10 (永享１０年)
Javanese calendar	1353–1354
Julian calendar	1438 MCDXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3771
Minguo calendar	474 before ROC 民前474年
Nanakshahi calendar	−30
Thai solar calendar	1980–1981
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1564 or 1183 or 411     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1565 or 1184 or 412

Year 1438 (MCDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 1 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary.
• January 9 – The city of Cluj (Kolozsvár) is conquered, thus marking the end of the Transylvanian peasant revolt, which started at Bobâlna.
• February 2 – The Unio Trium Nationum pact is established in Transylvania.
• March 18 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany.
• July 7 – Charles VII of France issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, giving the French church control over the appointment of bishops, and depriving the Pope of French ecclesiastical revenues.
• September 13 – Afonso V becomes King of Portugal.
• October – Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, loses direct control of Sweden, as Karl Knutsson Bonde is elected Regent of Sweden.

Date unknown

• The Council of Florence is moved to Ferrara.
• Pachacuti (who will later create Tahuantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire) becomes the ruler of Cuzco.
• In Italy, the siege of Brescia by the condottieri troops of Niccolò Piccinino is raised, after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì.
• Just two years after the Ming Dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines, and to ban all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. This is a concerted effort to halt the increase of silver circulating into the market. Illegally mining silver is now an offense punishable by death; although illegal mining becomes a dangerous affair, the high demand for illegal mining also makes it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continue to mine silver.
• All Souls College, University of Oxford is founded.

Births

• February 5
  • Margaret of Bourbon, French noble (d. 1483)
  • Philip II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1497)
• February 12 – Adolf, Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen (1465–1471) (d. 1477)
• March 23 – Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo, Italian noble (d. 1504)
• April 3 – John III of Egmont, Dutch noble (d. 1516)
• September 7 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse (1458–1471) (d. 1471)
• December 1 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503)
• date unknown – Husayn Bayqarah, Timurid ruler of Herat (d. 1506)
• probable – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English nobleman and military commander during the Wars of the Roses (d. 1471)

Deaths

• April 24 – Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel (b. 1429)
• September 9 – Edward, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
• October 16 – Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)
• October 20 – Jacopo della Quercia, Sienese sculptor (b. c. 1374)