1138

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 (MCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1138th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 138th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 12th century, and the 9th year of the 1130s decade. As of the start of 1138, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• March 13 – Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• August 9 – Deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria killing about 230,000 people.
• August 22 – Battle of the Standard between David I of Scotland and the English. The Scots were defeated.
• Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.