836

This article is about the year 836. For the number (and other uses), see 836 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	800s  810s  820s  – 830s –  840s  850s  860s
Years:	833 834 835 – 836 – 837 838 839

836 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

836 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	836 DCCCXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1589
Armenian calendar	285 ԹՎ ՄՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5586
Bahá'í calendar	-1008–-1007
Bengali calendar	243
Berber calendar	1786
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1380
Burmese calendar	198
Byzantine calendar	6344–6345
Chinese calendar	乙卯年十二月初九日 (3472/3532-12-9) — to — 丙辰年十一月二十日 (3473/3533-11-20)
Coptic calendar	552–553
Ethiopian calendar	828–829
Hebrew calendar	4596–4597
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	892–893
- Shaka Samvat	758–759
- Kali Yuga	3937–3938
Holocene calendar	10836
Iranian calendar	214–215
Islamic calendar	221–222
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3169
Minguo calendar	1076 before ROC 民前1076年
Thai solar calendar	1379

Year 836 (DCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Abbasid caliph al-Mutasim establishes a new capital at Samarra, Iraq.

Europe

• Egbert of Wessex is defeated by the Danes.
• Presian succeeds Malamir as Khan of Bulgaria.
• Oldest known mentioning of the city of Soest, Germany.
• Petrus Tradonicus Pola appointed Roman consul and duke of Venice.

By topic

Art

• The construction of Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia, begins.

Religion

• John VII Grammaticus succeeds Antony I as Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• Thabit ibn Kurrah, Arabian astronomer
• Fujiwara no Mototsune, Japanese regent (d. 891)
• Ethelbert of Wessex
• Wei Zhuang
• The legend at Download Festival 2011