AD 96

AD 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus (or, less frequently, year 849 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

AD 96 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 96 XCVI
Ab urbe condita	849
Assyrian calendar	4846
Balinese saka calendar	17–18
Bengali calendar	−498 – −497
Berber calendar	1046
Buddhist calendar	640
Burmese calendar	−542
Byzantine calendar	5604–5605
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 2793 or 2586     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 2794 or 2587
Coptic calendar	−188 – −187
Discordian calendar	1262
Ethiopian calendar	88–89
Hebrew calendar	3856–3857
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	152–153
- Shaka Samvat	17–18
- Kali Yuga	3196–3197
Holocene calendar	10096
Iranian calendar	526 BP – 525 BP
Islamic calendar	542 BH – 541 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 96 XCVI
Korean calendar	2429
Minguo calendar	1816 before ROC 民前1816年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1372
Seleucid era	407/408 AG
Thai solar calendar	638–639
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 222 or −159 or −931     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 223 or −158 or −930

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• September 18 – Emperor Domitian is stabbed to death by a freedman at the age 44 after a 15-year reign, in a palace conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard. The Flavian Dynasty ends.
• Nerva is declared emperor by the Roman Senate as the new ruler of the Roman Empire. He recalls citizens exiled by Domitian; this is the beginning of the Era of the Five Good Emperors. The Antonines Dynasty starts.
• Marcus Ulpius Traianus becomes governor of Upper Germany.
• The Arch of Titus is completed in Rome.

By topic

Art and Science

• End of the period covered by Tacitus in his Histories.

Religion

• The Book of Revelation is written (approximate date).
• A schism in Buddhism creates a new, popular religion in India, Mahâyâna ("Great Vehicle").

Births

• Lucius Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus, Roman statesman

Deaths

• September 18 – Domitian, Roman emperor (b. AD 51)^[1]
• Gaius Manlius Valens, Roman senator and consul (b. AD 6)
• Publius Papinius Statius, Roman poet (approximate date)