| Years |
|---|
| Millennium |
| 2nd millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
| Years |
| Gregorian calendar | 1438 MCDXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2191 |
| Armenian calendar | 887 ԹՎ ՊՁԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6188 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1359–1360 |
| Bengali calendar | 845 |
| Berber calendar | 2388 |
| English Regnal year | 16 Hen. 6 – 17 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1982 |
| Burmese calendar | 800 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6946–6947 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4134 or 4074 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4135 or 4075 |
| Coptic calendar | 1154–1155 |
| Discordian calendar | 2604 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1430–1431 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5198–5199 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1494–1495 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1359–1360 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4538–4539 |
| Holocene calendar | 11438 |
| Igbo calendar | 438–439 |
| Iranian calendar | 816–817 |
| Islamic calendar | 841–842 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyō 10 (永享１０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1353–1354 |
| Julian calendar | 1438 MCDXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3771 |
| Minguo calendar | 474 before ROC 民前474年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −30 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1980–1981 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1564 or 1183 or 411 — to — ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 1565 or 1184 or 412 |
1438 (MCDXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1438th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 438th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 15th century, and the 9th year of the 1430s decade. As of the start of 1438, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.