Year 956 (CMLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
Egypt
By topic
Religion
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Births
Deaths
- February 15 – Su Yugui, Chinese chancellor (b. 895)
- February 27 – Theophylact, Byzantine patriarch (b. 917)
- April 8 – Gilbert, duke of Burgundy
- April 15 – Lin Yanyu, Chinese court official and eunuch
- May 19 – Robert, archbishop of Trier
- June 4 – Muhammad II of Shirvan, Muslim ruler
- June 16 – Hugh the Great, Frankish nobleman (b. 898)
- July/August – Fulbert of Cambrai, bishop
- August – Ordoño III, king of León
- August 29 – Fu (the Elder), Chinese empress consort
- September/October – Al-Masudi, Muslim historian and geographer
- December 21 – Sun Sheng, Chinese chancellor
- December 26 – Wulfstan, archbishop of York
- date unknown
- Ahmad al-Muhajir, Muslim scholar and imam (b. 873)
- Congalach Cnogba, High King of Ireland
- Gandaraditya, ruler of Chola Kingdom
- Zhao Hongyin, Chinese general
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