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| Gregorian calendar | 238 CCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 991 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4988 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 159–160 |
| Bengali calendar | −355 |
| Berber calendar | 1188 |
| Buddhist calendar | 782 |
| Burmese calendar | −400 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5746–5747 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 2934 or 2874 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 2935 or 2875 |
| Coptic calendar | −46 – −45 |
| Discordian calendar | 1404 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 230–231 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3998–3999 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 294–295 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 159–160 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3338–3339 |
| Holocene calendar | 10238 |
| Iranian calendar | 384 BP – 383 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 396 BH – 395 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 116–117 |
| Julian calendar | 238 CCXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 2571 |
| Minguo calendar | 1674 before ROC 民前1674年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1230 |
| Seleucid era | 549/550 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 780–781 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 364 or −17 or −789 — to — ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 365 or −16 or −788 |
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Year 238 (CCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- Emperor Maximinus Thrax battles against the Carpians on the Danube in Moesia (Balkans).
- March 7 – Romans in Africa go against Maximinus and elect Marcus Antonius Gordianus (Africanus) as emperor.
- April 12 – Battle of Carthage: Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus invade Africa. Gordian II is killed. Gordian I commits suicide.
- April 22 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Senate outlaws Maximinus. Pupienus and Balbinus go to the throne.
- Maximinus gets to the town Aquileia in northern Italy. His army has famine and disease.
- July 29 – The Praetorian Guard kill Pupienus and Balbinus. On the same day Gordian III, age 13, is made new emperor.
- Future Roman Emperor Valerian becomes princeps senatus.
- The Colosseum is restored after being damaged.
- The Goths, coming from Ukraine, cross the Danube and ruin the Roman Empire up to the border with Anatolia.
Asia
- The Cao Wei general Sima Yi destroys the northeastern Chinese warlord Gongsun Yuan.
Births
- Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu (d. 274)
- Wen Yang, general of the Kingdom of Wei (d. 291)
Deaths
- April 12 – Roman emperors Gordian I (suicide) and Gordian II (killed in battle)
- June 24 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (b. 173)
- Maximinus the Younger, Roman Emperor
- July 29 – Pupienus and Balbinus, Roman Emperors
- Gongsun Yuan, warlord of Liaodong
- Lun Zhi, general of Liaodong
- Jia Fan, advisor Liaodong
- Chosroes I, King of Armenia (assassinated)