936
This article is about the year 936. For the number, see 936 (number). For the 2011 album by Peaking Lights, see 936 (album).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 900s 910s 920s – 930s – 940s 950s 960s |
| Years: | 933 934 935 – 936 – 937 938 939 |
| 936 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 936 CMXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1689 |
| Armenian calendar | 385 ԹՎ ՅՁԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5686 |
| Bengali calendar | 343 |
| Berber calendar | 1886 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1480 |
| Burmese calendar | 298 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6444–6445 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3632 or 3572 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3633 or 3573 |
| Coptic calendar | 652–653 |
| Discordian calendar | 2102 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 928–929 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4696–4697 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 992–993 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 858–859 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4037–4038 |
| Holocene calendar | 10936 |
| Iranian calendar | 314–315 |
| Islamic calendar | 324–325 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōhei 6 (承平６年) |
| Julian calendar | 936 CMXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3269 |
| Minguo calendar | 976 before ROC 民前976年 |
| Seleucid era | 1247/1248 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1478–1479 |
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Year 936 (CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid defeats the Fatimids near Alexandria, leading to the failure of the third Fatimid attempt to conquer Egypt.
Asia
- King Taejo of Goryeo (Wanggeon) defeats Hubaekje.
- The Later Tang falls to the Later Jin, founded by Shi Jingtang (posthumously known as Gaozu of Later Jin) in China.
- The Sixteen Prefectures, which includes the area around modern-day Beijing, are absorbed by the Khitan Empire.
- Prince Bei, elder brother of the Liao Dynasty emperor, is murdered by the Later Tang.
- Ibn Muqlah, Islamic calligrapher, is disgraced and imprisoned in Baghdad.
- November 28 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
Europe
- Otto I is the first German king to be crowned in Aachen.
- Æthelstan sets the border between the Kingdom of England and Cornwall as the east bank of the River Tamar.[1]
- Gorm the Old becomes the first historically recognized king of Denmark. (936)[2]
- A Hungarian army attacks Germany, occupying Fulda, than they are forced to go westwards by the army of Otto I, the new German king.
By topic
Religion
- January 3 – Pope Leo VII succeeds Pope John XI as the 126th pope.
Births
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, Moorish scholar
- Li Houzhu, last Chinese emperor of the Southern Tang (d. 978)
Deaths
- September 17 – Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- Henry the Fowler, German king
- Gyeonhwon, King of Hubaekje (cancer)
- Yelü Bei