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

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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.

    • 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)
  • Queen Zhou the Elder

    • Deaths

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

    • References

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