96

This article is about the year 96. For the number, see 96 (number). For other uses, see 96 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	60s  70s  80s  – 90s –  100s  110s  120s
Years:	93 94 95 – 96 – 97 98 99

96 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

96 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	96 XCVI
Ab urbe condita	849
Assyrian calendar	4846
Bengali calendar	−497
Berber calendar	1046
Buddhist calendar	640
Burmese calendar	−542
Byzantine calendar	5604–5605
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2792 or 2732     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2793 or 2733
Coptic calendar	−188 – −187
Discordian calendar	1262
Ethiopian calendar	88–89
Hebrew calendar	3856–3857
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	152–153
- Shaka Samvat	18–19
- Kali Yuga	3197–3198
Holocene calendar	10096
Iranian calendar	526 BP – 525 BP
Islamic calendar	542 BH – 541 BH
Julian calendar	96 XCVI
Korean calendar	2429
Minguo calendar	1816 before ROC 民前1816年
Seleucid era	407/408 AG
Thai solar calendar	638–639

Year 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus (or, less frequently, year 849 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• September 18 – Emperor Domitian is stabbed to death by a freedman at age 44 after a 15-year reign in a palace conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard. The Flavian dynasty ends.
• Nerva is declared emperor by the Senate as the new ruler of the Roman Empire. He recalls citizens exiled by Domitian, this is the beginning of the Era of the Five Good Emperors. The Antonines dynasty starts.
• Under Nerva, the Roman Senate regains much of the power usurped by Domitian.
• Marcus Ulpius Traianus becomes governor of Upper Germany.
• The Arch of Titus is completed in Rome.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• End of the period covered by Tacitus in his Histories.

Religion

• The Book of Revelation is written (traditional date).
• A schism in Buddhism creates a new, popular religion in India, mahâyâna (Grand Vehicle).

Deaths

• September 18 – Domitian, Roman emperor (b. 51 AD)
• Statius, Latin poet (approximate date) (b. c. 45 AD)