996

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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
996 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar996
CMXCVI
Ab urbe condita1749
Armenian calendar445
ԹՎ ՆԽԵ
Assyrian calendar5746
Balinese saka calendar917–918
Bengali calendar403
Berber calendar1946
Buddhist calendar1540
Burmese calendar358
Byzantine calendar6504–6505
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3693 or 3486
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
3694 or 3487
Coptic calendar712–713
Discordian calendar2162
Ethiopian calendar988–989
Hebrew calendar4756–4757
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1052–1053
 - Shaka Samvat917–918
 - Kali Yuga4096–4097
Holocene calendar10996
Iranian calendar374–375
Islamic calendar385–386
Japanese calendarChōtoku 2
(長徳2年)
Javanese calendar897–898
Julian calendar996
CMXCVI
Korean calendar3329
Minguo calendar916 before ROC
民前916年
Nanakshahi calendar−472
Seleucid era1307/1308 AG
Thai solar calendar1538–1539
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1122 or 741 or −31
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1123 or 742 or −30
Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Year 996 (CMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[edit]

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Japan[edit]

  • 2 March: Emperor Ichijo orders the imperial police to raid Korechika's residence; Empress Teishi (sister of Korechika) cuts her hair because of the humiliation; Takaie is arrested, Korechika is absent.
  • 5 March: Korechika returns with his head shaven and attired as a monk.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ François Neveux, A Brief History of the Normans (Constable and Robinson, 2008) p. 74.
  2. ^ Gil, Moshe (1997). A History of Palestine, 634–1099, pp. 369–370. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.