38 BC

Year 38 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Flaccus.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	60s BC  50s BC  40s BC  – 30s BC –  20s BC  10s BC  0s BC
Years:	41 BC 40 BC 39 BC – 38 BC – 37 BC 36 BC 35 BC

38 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	38 BC XXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	716
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 286
- Pharaoh	Cleopatra VII, 14
Ancient Greek era	185th Olympiad, year 3
Assyrian calendar	4713
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−630
Berber calendar	913
Buddhist calendar	507
Burmese calendar	−675
Byzantine calendar	5471–5472
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 2659 or 2599     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 2660 or 2600
Coptic calendar	−321 – −320
Discordian calendar	1129
Ethiopian calendar	−45 – −44
Hebrew calendar	3723–3724
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	19–20
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3063–3064
Holocene calendar	9963
Iranian calendar	659 BP – 658 BP
Islamic calendar	679 BH – 678 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	38 BC XXXVII BC
Korean calendar	2296
Minguo calendar	1949 before ROC 民前1949年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1505
Seleucid era	274/275 AG
Thai solar calendar	505–506
Tibetan calendar	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 89 or −292 or −1064     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 90 or −291 or −1063

38 BC was year 1 of the Spanish era calendar that was used in Hispania until the 15th century.

Events

• Octavian Caesar marries Livia. She is still pregnant from a recent marriage.
• Octavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul
• Parthia invades Syria

Births

• Nero Claudius Drusus (d. 9 BC)

Deaths

• Orodes II of Parthia
• Pacorus, crownprince of Parthia