There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
Aristotle and Alexander the Great celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 338 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 435 BC, 424 BC, 418 BC, 407 BC, 396 BC, 390 BC, 379 BC, 368 BC, 362 BC, 351 BC in the century before it and 334 BC, 323 BC, 312 BC, 306 BC, 301 BC, 295 BC, 284 BC, 278 BC, 267 BC, 256 BC, 250 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.