1438

Events 
 Pachacuti who would later create Tahuantinsuyu, or Inca Empire became the ruler of Cusco
 January 1 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary
 March 18 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany
 Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway loses direct control of Sweden. Karl Knutsson Bonde is elected Regent of Sweden.

 Births 
 Adolf, Duke of Gelderland
 William Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beamont
 Giovanni Michele Alberto da Carrara
 Sönam Choklang, 2nd Panchen Lama
 Henrique Esteves da Veiga de Nápoles
 Husayn Bayqarah
 John III of Egmont
 Manduulun Khan
 Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse
 Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège
 Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo
 Marguerite de Bourbon
 Pachacuti
 Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
 Philip II, Duke of Savoy
 Reginald Ely
 Anne Woodville

 Deaths 
 Humphrey FitzAlan, 15th Earl of Arundel
 Bagrationi, wife of John IV of Trebizond
 Barsbay
 Richard, Count of Étampes
 Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Crawford
 Edward of Portugal
 Ernest, Duke of Bavaria
 Dorothy Garai
 Conrad Justinger
 Adai Khan
 James II, Count of La Marche
 Thomas Mapilton
 Marie of Valois, Prioress of Poissy
 Johannes Nider
 Olaus Laurentii
 Giordano Orsini
 Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, 1st Panchen Lama
 Peter, infans of Aragón
 Jacopo della Quercia
 Ulrich of Richenthal
 Matilda of Savoy
 Shams al-Din 'Ali ibn Qutb al-Din
 Anne of Gloucester
 Simon Sydenham