| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1606 MDCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2359 |
| Armenian calendar | 1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6356 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1527–1528 |
| Bengali calendar | 1013 |
| Berber calendar | 2556 |
| English Regnal year | 3 Ja. 1 – 4 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2150 |
| Burmese calendar | 968 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7114–7115 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4303 or 4096 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4304 or 4097 |
| Coptic calendar | 1322–1323 |
| Discordian calendar | 2772 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1598–1599 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5366–5367 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1662–1663 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1527–1528 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4706–4707 |
| Holocene calendar | 11606 |
| Igbo calendar | 606–607 |
| Iranian calendar | 984–985 |
| Islamic calendar | 1014–1015 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 11 (慶長１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1526–1527 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3939 |
| Minguo calendar | 306 before ROC 民前306年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 138 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2148–2149 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1732 or 1351 or 579 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1733 or 1352 or 580 |
1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1606th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 606th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1606, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.