| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 738 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 738 DCCXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1491 |
| Armenian calendar | 187 ԹՎ ՃՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5488 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 659–660 |
| Bengali calendar | 145 |
| Berber calendar | 1688 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1282 |
| Burmese calendar | 100 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6246–6247 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3435 or 3228 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3436 or 3229 |
| Coptic calendar | 454–455 |
| Discordian calendar | 1904 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 730–731 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4498–4499 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 794–795 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 659–660 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3838–3839 |
| Holocene calendar | 10738 |
| Iranian calendar | 116–117 |
| Islamic calendar | 120–121 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpyō 10 (天平１０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 631–632 |
| Julian calendar | 738 DCCXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3071 |
| Minguo calendar | 1174 before ROC 民前1174年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −730 |
| Seleucid era | 1049/1050 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1280–1281 |
| 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 |
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.