1096

1096 (MXCVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1096th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 96th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 11th century, and the 7th year of the 1090s decade. As of the start of 1096, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Peter the Hermit preaching in Cologne, to gather followers for the People's Crusade.

1096 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1096 MXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1849
Armenian calendar	545 ԹՎ ՇԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5846
Balinese saka calendar	1017–1018
Bengali calendar	503
Berber calendar	2046
English Regnal year	9 Will. 2 – 10 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1640
Burmese calendar	458
Byzantine calendar	6604–6605
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3792 or 3732     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3793 or 3733
Coptic calendar	812–813
Discordian calendar	2262
Ethiopian calendar	1088–1089
Hebrew calendar	4856–4857
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1152–1153
- Shaka Samvat	1017–1018
- Kali Yuga	4196–4197
Holocene calendar	11096
Igbo calendar	96–97
Iranian calendar	474–475
Islamic calendar	488–490
Japanese calendar	Kahō 3 / Eichō 1 (永長元年)
Javanese calendar	1000–1001
Julian calendar	1096 MXCVI
Korean calendar	3429
Minguo calendar	816 before ROC 民前816年
Nanakshahi calendar	−372
Seleucid era	1407/1408 AG
Thai solar calendar	1638–1639
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1222 or 841 or 69     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1223 or 842 or 70

Events

• Vital I Michele is Doge of Venice
• Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca
• Bernhard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg
• First documented teaching at the University of Oxford
• Phayao, now a province of Thailand, is founded as a kingdom
• Beginning of the People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade^[1]