1038

Events 
 By place 
 Europe 
 The name of Versailles, then a small village, appears for the first time in a Medieval charter.
 In the Muslim kingdom of Zaragoza, the ruling Banu Tujibi family is removed by Suleiman Al-Mustain I ibn Hud who starts the Huddid dynasty which rules over the region for a century (possibly 1039).

 Asia 
 The Western Xia declare their independence from Liao China.

 Deaths 
 August 15 – Saint Stephen I, first king of Hungary
 October 29 – Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury
 Alhazen, Persian mathematician
 William VI of Aquitaine

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