1096
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1060s 1070s 1080s – 1090s – 1100s 1110s 1120s |
| Years: | 1093 1094 1095 – 1096 – 1097 1098 1099 |
| 1096 by topic | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1096 MXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1849 |
| Armenian calendar | 545 ԹՎ ՇԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5846 |
| Bengali calendar | 503 |
| Berber calendar | 2046 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Will. 2 – 10 Will. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1640 |
| Burmese calendar | 458 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6604–6605 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3792 or 3732 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3793 or 3733 |
| Coptic calendar | 812–813 |
| Discordian calendar | 2262 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1088–1089 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4856–4857 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1152–1153 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1018–1019 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4197–4198 |
| Holocene calendar | 11096 |
| Igbo calendar | 96–97 |
| Iranian calendar | 474–475 |
| Islamic calendar | 488–490 |
| Japanese calendar | Kahō 3 / Eichō 1 (永長元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1096 MXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3429 |
| Minguo calendar | 816 before ROC 民前816年 |
| Seleucid era | 1407/1408 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1638–1639 |
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Year 1096 (MXCVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- Bernard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg.
- In Ireland, the Diocese of Waterford is erected.
- The first documented teaching at the University of Oxford occurs.
- In England, Norwich School is founded as an episcopal Grammar School.
- The People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade begin. On October 21, Kilij Arslan I of the Sultanate of Rum ends the People's Crusade at the Battle of Civetot near İznik.
- Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca.[1]
- Phayao, now a province of Thailand, is founded as a kingdom.
- Late April – A large band of Crusaders approaches Speyer and massacres the Jewish population.
- The University of Salerno is founded.
Births
- Hugh of St. Victor, scholar
- King Stephen of England (d. 1154)
Deaths
- January 2 – William de St-Calais, Bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England
- October 21 – Walter the Penniless, a leader of the First Crusade
- date unknown
- Eudocia Macrembolitissa, empress of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X (b. 1021)
- Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou (b. 1040)
References
- ↑ Catlos, Brian A. (2004). The victors and the vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-521-82234-3.