This article is about the year. For information on the car, see Porsche 956

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades: 920s  930s  940s  - 950s -  960s  970s  980s
Years: 953 954 955 - 956 - 957 958 959
956 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
956 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 956
CMLVI
Ab urbe condita 1709
Armenian calendar 405
ԹՎ ՆԵ
Bahá'í calendar -888 – -887
Berber calendar 1906
Buddhist calendar 1500
Burmese calendar 318
Byzantine calendar 6464 – 6465
Chinese calendar 乙卯年十一月十六日
(3592/3652-11-16) 丙辰年十一月廿七日
(3593/3653-11-27)
Coptic calendar 672 – 673
Ethiopian calendar 948 – 949
Hebrew calendar 4716 – 4717
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1011 – 1012
 - Shaka Samvat 878 – 879
 - Kali Yuga 4057 – 4058
Holocene calendar 10956
Iranian calendar 334 – 335
Islamic calendar 344 – 345
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3289
Thai solar calendar 1499

Events

Births

Deaths

• April 8 — Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
• Ali al-Masudi, Arab historian, geographer and philosopher