936

This article is about the year 936. For the number, see 936 (number). For the 2011 album by Peaking Lights, see 936 (album).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	900s  910s  920s  – 930s –  940s  950s  960s
Years:	933 934 935 – 936 – 937 938 939

936 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

936 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	936 CMXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1689
Armenian calendar	385 ԹՎ ՅՁԵ
Assyrian calendar	5686
Bengali calendar	343
Berber calendar	1886
Buddhist calendar	1480
Burmese calendar	298
Byzantine calendar	6444–6445
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3632 or 3572     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3633 or 3573
Coptic calendar	652–653
Discordian calendar	2102
Ethiopian calendar	928–929
Hebrew calendar	4696–4697
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	992–993
- Shaka Samvat	858–859
- Kali Yuga	4037–4038
Holocene calendar	10936
Iranian calendar	314–315
Islamic calendar	324–325
Japanese calendar	Jōhei 6 (承平６年)
Julian calendar	936 CMXXXVI
Korean calendar	3269
Minguo calendar	976 before ROC 民前976年
Seleucid era	1247/1248 AG
Thai solar calendar	1478–1479

Year 936 (CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid defeats the Fatimids near Alexandria, leading to the failure of the third Fatimid attempt to conquer Egypt.

Asia

• King Taejo of Goryeo (Wanggeon) defeats Hubaekje.
• The Later Tang falls to the Later Jin, founded by Shi Jingtang (posthumously known as Gaozu of Later Jin) in China.
• The Sixteen Prefectures, which includes the area around modern-day Beijing, are absorbed by the Khitan Empire.
• Prince Bei, elder brother of the Liao dynasty emperor, is murdered by the Later Tang.
• Ibn Muqla, Islamic calligrapher, is disgraced and imprisoned in Baghdad.
• November 28 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.

Europe

• Otto I is the first German king to be crowned in Aachen.
• Æthelstan sets the border between the Kingdom of England and Cornwall as the east bank of the River Tamar.
• Gorm the Old becomes the first historically recognized king of Denmark. (936)
• A Hungarian army attacks Germany, occupying Fulda, then they are forced to go westwards by the army of Otto I, the new German king.

By topic

Religion

• January 3 – Pope Leo VII succeeds Pope John XI as the 126th pope.

Births

• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, Moorish scholar
• Li Houzhu, last Chinese emperor of the Southern Tang (d. 978)

Deaths

• September 17 – Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
• Henry the Fowler, German king
• Gyeon Hwon, King of Hubaekje (cancer)
• Yelü Bei