895

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	860s 870s 880s – 890s – 900s 910s 920s
Years:	892 893 894 – 895 – 896 897 898

895 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

895 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	895 DCCCXCV
Ab urbe condita	1648
Armenian calendar	344 ԹՎ ՅԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5645
Bengali calendar	302
Berber calendar	1845
Buddhist calendar	1439
Burmese calendar	257
Byzantine calendar	6403–6404
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3591 or 3531 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3592 or 3532
Coptic calendar	611–612
Discordian calendar	2061
Ethiopian calendar	887–888
Hebrew calendar	4655–4656
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	951–952
- Shaka Samvat	817–818
- Kali Yuga	3996–3997
Holocene calendar	10895
Iranian calendar	273–274
Islamic calendar	281–282
Japanese calendar	Kanpyō 7 (寛平７年)
Julian calendar	895 DCCCXCV
Korean calendar	3228
Minguo calendar	1017 before ROC 民前1017年
Seleucid era	1206/1207 AG
Thai solar calendar	1437–1438

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Year 895 (DCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

The Taghlibi chieftain Hamdan ibn Hamdun is defeated and captured by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid. Hamdan's son Husayn enters caliphal service, beginning the rise of the Hamdanid dynasty.

The seven tribes of the Magyars settle in the Carpathian Basin under the leadership of Árpád (The traditional date of 896 held during the 20th century has proved to be erroneous). People think of them as returning Huns, thus the Magyars come to be known as Hungarians.
Bohemia breaks away from Great Moravia.
Arnulf of Carinthia undertakes his second Italian campaign.
The Danes begin raids on Sussex, England.

Approximate date of composition of the Musica enchiriadis, the beginnings of western polyphonic music.