1096

This article is about the year 1096.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1060s  1070s  1080s  – 1090s –  1100s  1110s  1120s
Years:	1093 1094 1095 – 1096 – 1097 1098 1099

1096 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1096 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1096 MXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1849
Armenian calendar	545 ԹՎ ՇԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5846
Bengali calendar	503
Berber calendar	2046
English Regnal year	9 Will. 2 – 10 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1640
Burmese calendar	458
Byzantine calendar	6604–6605
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3792 or 3732     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3793 or 3733
Coptic calendar	812–813
Discordian calendar	2262
Ethiopian calendar	1088–1089
Hebrew calendar	4856–4857
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1152–1153
- Shaka Samvat	1018–1019
- Kali Yuga	4197–4198
Holocene calendar	11096
Igbo calendar	96–97
Iranian calendar	474–475
Islamic calendar	488–490
Japanese calendar	Kahō 3 / Eichō 1 (永長元年)
Julian calendar	1096 MXCVI
Korean calendar	3429
Minguo calendar	816 before ROC 民前816年
Seleucid era	1407/1408 AG
Thai solar calendar	1638–1639

Year 1096 (MXCVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Bernard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg.
• In Ireland, the Diocese of Waterford is erected.
• The first documented teaching at the University of Oxford occurs.
• In England, Norwich School is founded as an episcopal Grammar School.
• The People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade begin. On October 21, Kilij Arslan I of the Sultanate of Rum ends the People's Crusade at the Battle of Civetot near İznik.
• Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca.
• Phayao, now a province of Thailand, is founded as a kingdom.
• Late April – A large band of Crusaders approaches Speyer and massacred the Jewish population.
• The University of Salerno is founded.

Births

• Hugh of St. Victor, scholar
• King Stephen of England (d. 1154)

Deaths

• January 2 – William de St-Calais, Bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England
• October 21 – Walter the Penniless, a leader of the First Crusade
• date unknown
  • Eudocia Macrembolitissa, empress of Byzantine Emperor Constantine X (b. 1021)
  • Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou (b. 1040)