996

This article is about the year 996. For the number, see 996 (number). For the car, see Porsche 996.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	960s  970s  980s  – 990s –  1000s  1010s  1020s
Years:	993 994 995 – 996 – 997 998 999

996 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

996 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	996 CMXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1749
Armenian calendar	445 ԹՎ ՆԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5746
Bengali calendar	403
Berber calendar	1946
Buddhist calendar	1540
Burmese calendar	358
Byzantine calendar	6504–6505
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3692 or 3632     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3693 or 3633
Coptic calendar	712–713
Discordian calendar	2162
Ethiopian calendar	988–989
Hebrew calendar	4756–4757
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1052–1053
- Shaka Samvat	918–919
- Kali Yuga	4097–4098
Holocene calendar	10996
Iranian calendar	374–375
Islamic calendar	385–386
Japanese calendar	Chōtoku 2 (長徳２年)
Julian calendar	996 CMXCVI
Korean calendar	3329
Minguo calendar	916 before ROC 民前916年
Seleucid era	1307/1308 AG
Thai solar calendar	1538–1539

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

Events

By place

Europe

• March or April – Pope John XV dies before being able to crown Otto III, King of Germany as Holy Roman Emperor. Otto resides in Pavia while waiting for the election of the next Pope.
• May 21 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by his cousin Pope Gregory V.
• October 24 – Hugh Capet, King of France dies and is succeeded by his son Robert II of France.
• November 1 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
• In a continuing effort to expend northward, the de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur captures the city of Astorga.
• In the duchy of Normandy, peasant revolt against the Scandinavian aristocracy.

Asia

• Al-Aziz Billah, fifth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt, dies and is succeeded by his son Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
• The Niujie Mosque is constructed in Beijing.
• The citizens of Tyre rise up in revolt against the Fatimid Caliphate.

By topic

Religion

• May 3 – Pope Gregory V succeeds Pope John XV as the 138th pope. He was 24-year-old Bruno of Carinthia, grandson of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and first cousin of Otto III. He is the first German Pope.

Births

• Drogo of Mantes, count of Valois and the Vexin

Deaths

• March or April – Pope John XV
• October 24 – Hugh Capet, King of France (b. 938)
• November 20 – Richard I, Duke of Normandy
• Abu Mansoor Nizar al-Aziz Billah, fifth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt
• Li Fang, Chinese scholar and encyclopedist (b. 925)
• Herman I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia