Editing 38 BC

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Year '''38 BC''' was either a [[common year starting on Sunday]] or [[Common year starting on Monday|Monday]] or a [[leap year starting on Saturday]], [[Leap year starting on Sunday|Sunday]] or [[Leap year starting on Monday|Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]] (the sources differ, see [[Julian calendar#Leap year error|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 ==
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=== By place ===

==== Roman Republic ====
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Hispanic era]], by orders of Octavian Caesar.
* [[January 17]] &ndash; Octavian marries [[Livia]] while she is still pregnant from a recently broken marriage. Octavian gains permission from the [[College of Pontiffs]] to wed her while she is still pregnant from another husband. 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]].
* Parthian invasion into [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Syria]]; [[Publius Ventidius Bassus]] defeats [[Pacorus I of Parthia|Pacorus]], at the crossing of the [[Euphrates]] in the [[Battle of Cyrrhestica]]. Ventidius lays siege to [[Antiochus I of Commagene]] in [[Samosata]] until relieved by Antony.
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== Births ==
* [[January 14]] –  [[Nero Claudius Drusus]], Roman politician and military commander, future stepson of [[Augustus Caesar]] (d. [[9 BC]])
* [[Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul 3)|Lucius Volusius Saturninus]], Roman suffect consul (or [[37 BC]])

== Deaths ==
* [[Antiochus I of Commagene|Antiochus I]], king of [[Commagene]] (b. c. [[86 BC]])
* [[Pacorus I]], crown prince of [[Parthian Empire|Parthia]] (b. c. [[63 BC]])

== References ==
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