This article is about the year 738. For the number, see
738 (number) .
Calendar year
Map ofMaya area, with location ofCopán Stela ofUaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil Year738 (DCCXXXVIII common year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 738th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 738th year of the1st millennium , the 38th year of the8th century , and the 9th year of the730s decade. The denomination 738 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Charles Martel , Merovingianmayor of the palace , begins a campaign against theSaxons (in modern-dayWestphalia ) on the northeast frontier. They are subdued and must pay himtribute .[ 1] Moors underUqba ibn Al-Hajjaj cross thePyrenees into France. Uqba fortifiesNarbonne and reconquersAvignon ,Arles ,Nimes . He then advances intoProvence , and penetrates as far asPiedmont ; he then heads North, and conquersDauphiné , destroying the city of Saint-Paul , takingValence ,Vienne andLyon , which he uses as a base to attackBourgogne .Kormesiy , ruler (khagan Bulgarian Empire , is deposed by thenobility . He is replaced on thethrone by his sonSevar , who is a descendant of the royalDulo clan .Felice Cornicola is appointedhypatos (Byzantineconsul ) andmagister militum ofVenice .
In the fiction ofH. P. Lovecraft , Abd Al Azred, Muslim-kafir scholar and scientist, is killed inDamascus city market. His treatise on religion, theAl-Azif , is published soon thereafter. ^ David Nicolle (2008). Poitiers AD 732, Charles Martel turns the Islamic tide (p. 19).ISBN 978-184603-230-1 . 
