238

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century
Decades:	200s  210s  220s  – 230s –  240s  250s  260s
Years:	235 236 237 – 238 – 239 240 241

238 in other calendars

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	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

Emperor Gordian I

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)