956
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 956 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 956 CMLVI | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1709 | 
| Armenian calendar | 405 ԹՎ ՆԵ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5706 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 877–878 | 
| Bengali calendar | 362–363 | 
| Berber calendar | 1906 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1500 | 
| Burmese calendar | 318 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6464–6465 | 
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3653 or 3446 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3654 or 3447 | 
| Coptic calendar | 672–673 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2122 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 948–949 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4716–4717 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1012–1013 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 877–878 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4056–4057 | 
| Holocene calendar | 10956 | 
| Iranian calendar | 334–335 | 
| Islamic calendar | 344–345 | 
| Japanese calendar | Tenryaku 10 (天暦10年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 856–857 | 
| Julian calendar | 956 CMLVI | 
| Korean calendar | 3289 | 
| Minguo calendar | 956 before ROC 民前956年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −512 | 
| Seleucid era | 1267/1268 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1498–1499 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1082 or 701 or −71 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1083 or 702 or −70 | 
Year 956 (CMLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.