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Year 956 (CMLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • September/October – A Byzantine fleet under Basil Hexamilites deals a crushing defeat, to the fleet of Tarsus.
  • An earthquake badly damages the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

    • Deaths

  • April 8 – Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
  • Al-Masudi, Arab historian, geographer and philosopher (b. c.896)
  • Empress Fu the Elder

    • References

    956 Wikipedia
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