38 BC

__NOTOC__Year 38 BC was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Rome

* January 1 — Beginning of the Hispanic era, by Octavio Augusto's orders.
* January 17 — Octavian marries Livia while she is still pregnant from a recently broken marriage. Octavian gained permission from the college of priests to wed her while she was still pregnant from another husband. Three months after the wedding she gave birth to a second son, Nero Claudius Drusus, while he and his elder brother, the four-year-old Tiberius, lived in Octavian's household.
* Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, under order of Octavian, successfully quelled an uprising along the Rhine.
* Mark Antony, Octavianus and Lepidus sign the "Treaty of Tarentum" (or 37 BC), extending the second triumvirate until 33 BC.
* Parthian invasion into Roman Syria was beat back at the Battle of Gandarus, the Parthian general Pacorus I was killed.

Births

*Nero Claudius Drusus, future stepson of Augustus Caesar

Deaths

*Orodes II of Parthia