896
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This article is about the year 896.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 896 by topic | |
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| 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 | 817–818 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3996–3997 |
| Holocene calendar | 10896 |
| Iranian calendar | 274–275 |
| Islamic calendar | 282–283 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanpyō 8 (寛平８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 794–795 |
| Julian calendar | 896 DCCCXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3229 |
| Minguo calendar | 1016 before ROC 民前1016年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −572 |
| Seleucid era | 1207/1208 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1438–1439 |
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Year 896 (DCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
By place[edit]
Asia[edit]
- 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.
Europe[edit]
- 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.
By topic[edit]
Religion[edit]
- 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.
Births[edit]
Deaths[edit]
- January 18 – Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (b. 864)
- April 4 – Pope Formosus (b. c.816)
- April – Pope Boniface VI
- Rafi ibn Harthama, mercenary, ruler of Greater Khorasan
- Ermengard of Italy, queen and regent of Provence (b. 843)
