38 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	2nd century BC – 1st century BC – 1st century
Decades:	60s BC  50s BC  40s BC  – 30s BC –  20s BC  10s BC  0s BC
Years:	41 BC 40 BC 39 BC – 38 BC – 37 BC 36 BC 35 BC

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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. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Flaccus.

38 BC was year 1 of the Spanish era calendar that was used in Hispania until the 15th century.

Events

• Octavian Caesar marries Livia. She is still pregnant from a recent marriage.
• Octavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine Gaul
• Parthia invades Syria

Births

• Nero Claudius Drusus (d. 9 BC)

Deaths

• Orodes II of Parthia
• Pacorus, crownprince of Parthia