Year 936 (CMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid defeats the Fatimids near Alexandria, leading to the failure of the third Fatimid attempt to conquer Egypt.
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.
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.
January 3 – Pope Leo VII succeeds Pope John XI, as the 126th pope.
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, Moorish scholar
Li Houzhu, last Chinese emperor of the Southern Tang (d. 978)
Queen Zhou the Elder
September 17 – Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Henry the Fowler, German king
Gyeon Hwon, King of Hubaekje (cancer)
Yelü Bei
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