896

This article is about the year 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

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

896 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	896 DCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1649
Armenian calendar	345 ԹՎ ՅԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5646
Bahá'í calendar	-948–-947
Bengali calendar	303
Berber calendar	1846
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1440
Burmese calendar	258
Byzantine calendar	6404–6405
Chinese calendar	乙卯年十二月十三日 (3532/3592-12-13) — to — 丙辰年十一月廿四日 (3533/3593-11-24)
Coptic calendar	612–613
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
Korean calendar	3229
Minguo calendar	1016 before ROC 民前1016年
Thai solar calendar	1439

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 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.

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

Deaths

• April 4 – Pope Formosus
• April – Pope Boniface VI