1038
Year 1038 (MXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
The name of Versailles, then a small village, appears for the first time in a Medieval charter.
In the Muslim kingdom of Zaragoza, the ruling Banu Tujibi family is removed by Suleiman Al-Mustain I ibn Hud who starts the Huddid dynasty which rules over the region for a century (possibly 1039).
Asia
The Western Xia declare their independence from Liao China.
Deaths
August 15 - Saint Stephen I, first king of Hungary
October 29 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
Alhazen, Persian mathematician
William VI of Aquitaine
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