Year 738 (DCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 738th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 738th year of the 1st millennium, the 38th year of the 8th century, and the 9th year of the 730s decade. The denomination 738 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.

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738 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar738
DCCXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1491
Armenian calendar187
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Assyrian calendar5488
Balinese saka calendar659–660
Bengali calendar145
Berber calendar1688
Buddhist calendar1282
Burmese calendar100
Byzantine calendar6246–6247
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3435 or 3228
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3436 or 3229
Coptic calendar454–455
Discordian calendar1904
Ethiopian calendar730–731
Hebrew calendar4498–4499
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat794–795
 - Shaka Samvat659–660
 - Kali Yuga3838–3839
Holocene calendar10738
Iranian calendar116–117
Islamic calendar120–121
Japanese calendarTenpyō 10
(天平10年)
Javanese calendar631–632
Julian calendar738
DCCXXXVIII
Korean calendar3071
Minguo calendar1174 before ROC
民前1174年
Nanakshahi calendar−730
Seleucid era1049/1050 AG
Thai solar calendar1280–1281
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
864 or 483 or −289
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
865 or 484 or −288
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Stela of Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil

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In fiction

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  • In the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Abd Al Azred, Muslim-kafir scholar and scientist, is killed in Damascus city market. His treatise on religion, the Al-Azif, is published soon thereafter.

References

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  1. ^ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19). ISBN 978-184603-230-1.