| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 596 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 596 DXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1349 |
| Armenian calendar | 45 ԹՎ ԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5346 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 517–518 |
| Bengali calendar | 3 |
| Berber calendar | 1546 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1140 |
| Burmese calendar | −42 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6104–6105 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3293 or 3086 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3294 or 3087 |
| Coptic calendar | 312–313 |
| Discordian calendar | 1762 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 588–589 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4356–4357 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 652–653 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 517–518 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3696–3697 |
| Holocene calendar | 10596 |
| Iranian calendar | 26 BP – 25 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 27 BH – 26 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 485–486 |
| Julian calendar | 596 DXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 2929 |
| Minguo calendar | 1316 before ROC 民前1316年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −872 |
| Seleucid era | 907/908 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1138–1139 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 722 or 341 or −431 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 723 or 342 or −430 |
Year 596 (DXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 596 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.