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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1200s  1210s  1220s  – 1230s –  1240s  1250s  1260s
Years:	1235 1236 1237 – 1238 – 1239 1240 1241

1238 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1238 in poetry v • d • e

1238 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1238 MCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1991
Armenian calendar	687 ԹՎ ՈՁԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-606 – -605
Bengali calendar	645
Berber calendar	2188
Buddhist calendar	1782
Burmese calendar	600
Byzantine calendar	6746 – 6747
Chinese calendar	丁酉年十二月十四日 (3874/3934-12-14) — to — 戊戌年十一月廿四日 (3875/3935-11-24)
Coptic calendar	954 – 955
Ethiopian calendar	1230 – 1231
Hebrew calendar	4998 – 4999
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1293 – 1294
- Shaka Samvat	1160 – 1161
- Kali Yuga	4339 – 4340
Holocene calendar	11238
Iranian calendar	616 – 617
Islamic calendar	635 – 636
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3571
Thai solar calendar	1781
v • d • e

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• March 4 – Mongol invasion of Rus – Battle of the Sit River: The Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan defeat the Rus' under Yuri Vsevolodovich of Vladimir-Suzdal.
• August 21 – Battle of Örlygsstaðir: Sighvatur Sturluson and Sturla Sighvatsson defeat Kolbeinn ungi Arnorsson and Gissur Thorvaldsson for control of Iceland.
• September 28 – James I of Aragon captures the city of Valencia from the Moors, who retreat to Granada.
• The seat of the patriarchate of Aquileia is transferred to Udine.
• Simon de Montfort marries Eleanor, sister of Henry III of England.
• The Mongols seize Moscow, at the time a small town.
• Peterborough Cathedral is consecrated.
• Founder of the Nasrid dynasty, Mohammed I ibn Nasr, begins Alhambra complex on the site of a pre-Islamic fortress.

[edit] Asia

• The Khmers are expelled from Luang Phrabang in Laos.
• The Sukhothai kingdom is founded in Thailand.

[edit] Births

• Nizamuddin Auliya, Indian Sufi saint (d. 1325)
• Theobald V of Champagne (approximate date; d. 1270)
• Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1302)
• Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol (d. 1295)
• Shri Madhvacharya, Vaishnavite saint and founder of the Dvaita School (d. 1317)
• Henry de Montfort, son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (d. 1265)
• Magnus Lagabøte, king of Norway (d. 1280)

[edit] Deaths

• March 4
  • Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1210)
  • Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich of Vladimir-Suzdalia (b. 1189)
• March 19 – Henry I the Bearded, Duke of Lower Silesia (b. c.1165)
• June 9 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
• date unknown
  • Al-Kamil, Ayyubid sultan of Egypt
  • Hugh le Despenser I, English nobleman