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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 (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Sunday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 716 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 38 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. It was also the first year (year 1) of the Spanish era calendar in use in Hispania until the 15th century.
Events
[edit | edit source]By place
[edit | edit source]Roman Republic
[edit | edit source]- January 1 – Beginning of the Hispanic era.[1]
- January 17 – Octavian marries Livia while she is still pregnant from a recently broken marriage. Octavian gained permission from the College of Pontiffs to wed her while she is still pregnant from another husband.[2][3] Three months after the wedding she gives birth to a second son, Nero Claudius Drusus, while he and his elder brother, the four-year-old Tiberius, are living in Octavian's household.
- Octavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul, where he puts down an uprising of the Aquitanians. He also fights successfully against the Germanic tribes, and becomes the next Roman general to cross the Rhine after Julius Caesar.[4]
Births
[edit | edit source]- January 14 – Nero Claudius Drusus, Roman politician and military commander, future stepson of Augustus Caesar (d. 9 BC)
- Lucius Volusius Saturninus, Roman suffect consul (or 37 BC)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Della Vida, G. Levi (1943). "The "Bronze Era" in Moslem Spain". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 63 (3): 183–191. doi:10.2307/593870. ISSN 0003-0279.
- ↑ Herbert-Brown, Geraldine (2010). "Livia". In Gagarin, Michael (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 6, 2025.
- ↑ Howatson, M. C., ed. (2011). "Lī'via". The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 6, 2025.
- ↑ Richardson, Geoffrey Walter; Cadoux, Theodore John; Levick, Barbara M. (2003). "Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius". Who's Who in the Classical World. Oxford University Press. Retrieved December 6, 2025.