896
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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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
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.
Births
- Al-Masudi, Arab historian and geographer