This article is about the year 896. For the number, see 896 (number).
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
Decades: | 860s 870s 880s – 890s – 900s 910s 920s |
Years: | 893 894 895 – 896 – 897 898 899 |
896 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 896 DCCCXCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1649 |
Armenian calendar | 345 ԹՎ ՅԽԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5646 |
Bengali calendar | 303 |
Berber calendar | 1846 |
Buddhist calendar | 1440 |
Burmese calendar | 258 |
Byzantine calendar | 6404–6405 |
Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3592 or 3532 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3593 or 3533 |
Coptic calendar | 612–613 |
Discordian calendar | 2062 |
Ethiopian calendar | 888–889 |
Hebrew calendar | 4656–4657 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 952–953 |
- Shaka Samvat | 818–819 |
- Kali Yuga | 3997–3998 |
Holocene calendar | 10896 |
Iranian calendar | 274–275 |
Islamic calendar | 282–283 |
Japanese calendar | Kanpyō 8 (寛平8年) |
Julian calendar | 896 DCCCXCVI |
Korean calendar | 3229 |
Minguo calendar | 1016 before ROC 民前1016年 |
Seleucid era | 1207/1208 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1438–1439 |
Year 896 (DCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Decisive Bulgarian victory over the Magyars in the Battle of Southern Buh.
- The Bulgarians, under Simeon I, defeat the Byzantine Empire at Bulgarophygon.
- The Eastern Franks invade and conquer Italy under the leadership of Arnulf of Carinthia.
- Alfred the Great restores the city walls of London.
- Serbian pretender Klonimir is defeated by his ruling cousin, Petar.
Asia
- January 13 – Emperor Zhaozong appoints Li Keyong as the Prince of Jin, who begins his reign as first emperor of Jin following the collapse of the Tang dynasty in China.
- Spring – The thirty-year rebellion by the Kharijites in the Jazira is ended by the Abbasid Caliphate.
By topic
Religion
- April – Pope Boniface VI succeeds Pope Formosus as the 112th pope.
- May – Pope Stephen VI (also referred to as Stephen VII) succeeds Pope Boniface VI as the 113th pope.