1596

Millennium: 2nd millennium
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October 2426: Battle of Keresztes
1596 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1596
MDXCVI
Ab urbe condita2349
Armenian calendar1045
ԹՎ ՌԽԵ
Assyrian calendar6346
Balinese saka calendar1517–1518
Bengali calendar1003
Berber calendar2546
English Regnal year38 Eliz. 1 – 39 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2140
Burmese calendar958
Byzantine calendar7104–7105
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4293 or 4086
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4294 or 4087
Coptic calendar1312–1313
Discordian calendar2762
Ethiopian calendar1588–1589
Hebrew calendar5356–5357
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1652–1653
 - Shaka Samvat1517–1518
 - Kali Yuga4696–4697
Holocene calendar11596
Igbo calendar596–597
Iranian calendar974–975
Islamic calendar1004–1005
Japanese calendarBunroku 5 / Keichō 1
(慶長元年)
Javanese calendar1516–1517
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3929
Minguo calendar316 before ROC
民前316年
Nanakshahi calendar128
Thai solar calendar2138–2139
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
1722 or 1341 or 569
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1723 or 1342 or 570

1596 (MDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1596th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 596th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1596, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.