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This article is about the year 1138. For the number, see 1138 (number).
| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1100s 1110s 1120s - 1130s - 1140s 1150s 1160s |
| Years: | 1135 1136 1137 - 1138 - 1139 1140 1141 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1138 MCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1891 |
| Armenian calendar | 587 ԹՎ ՇՁԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -706 – -705 |
| Berber calendar | 2088 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1682 |
| Burmese calendar | 500 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6646 – 6647 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年十一月十八日 (3774/3834-11-18) — to —
戊午年十一月廿八日(3775/3835-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 854 – 855 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1130 – 1131 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4898 – 4899 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1193 – 1194 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1060 – 1061 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4239 – 4240 |
| Holocene calendar | 11138 |
| Iranian calendar | 516 – 517 |
| Islamic calendar | 532 – 533 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3471 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1681 |
[edit] Events
- Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- March 13 — Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- August 22 — Battle of the Standard: David I of Scotland is defeated by the English.
- October 11 — A deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria kills about 230,000 people.
- Conrad III of Germany becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
- A castle in Scotland successfully defeats a siege despite being held by only nine knights.
- The earldom of Pembroke, created for Gilbert de Clare, is the first earldom created by the Norman kings within the borders of Wales.
[edit] Births
- March 28 — Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
- Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)
- Casimir II of Poland (died 1194)
- Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)
- Saladin,[1] ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 — Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
- January 25 — Antipope Anacletus II
- William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
- Ibn Bajjah — Andalusian philosopher
- King Boleslaus III the Wrymouth of Poland
[edit] References
- ^ Malcolm Lyons and D.E.P. Jackson, "Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War", pg. 2.
