1138

This article is about the year 1138. For the number, see 1138 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1135 1136 1137 – 1138 – 1139 1140 1141

1138 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1138 in poetry

1138 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1138 MCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1891
Armenian calendar	587 ԹՎ ՇՁԷ
Assyrian calendar	5888
Bengali calendar	545
Berber calendar	2088
English Regnal year	3 Ste. 1 – 4 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1682
Burmese calendar	500
Byzantine calendar	6646–6647
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3834 or 3774     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3835 or 3775
Coptic calendar	854–855
Discordian calendar	2304
Ethiopian calendar	1130–1131
Hebrew calendar	4898–4899
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1194–1195
- Shaka Samvat	1060–1061
- Kali Yuga	4239–4240
Holocene calendar	11138
Igbo calendar	138–139
Iranian calendar	516–517
Islamic calendar	532–533
Japanese calendar	Hōen 4 (保延４年)
Julian calendar	1138 MCXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3471
Minguo calendar	774 before ROC 民前774年
Seleucid era	1449/1450 AG
Thai solar calendar	1680–1681

Year 1138 (MCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 13
  • Cardinal Gregory is elected antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
  • Conrad III is crowned King of Germany.
• April 10 – Robert Warelwast is nominated as Bishop of Exeter.
• July – Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Henry X, Duke of Bavaria, and given to the Margrave Leopold IV of Austria.
• August 22 – Battle of the Standard in Yorkshire: David I of Scotland is defeated by the English.
• October 11 – 1138 Aleppo earthquake: An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills about 230,000 people.
• November 5 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
• The earldom of Pembroke, created for Gilbert de Clare, is the first earldom created by the Norman kings within the borders of Wales.
• First mention of the consuls of Florence, indicating that the city has become an independent and self-governing commune.

Births

• date unknown –
  • Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)
  • Casimir II the Just, king of Poland (d. 1194)
  • Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)
• probable – Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

• January 13 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
• January 25 – Antipope Anacletus II
• May 11 – William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
• October 28 – King Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland
• probable – Avempace, Andalusian philosopher