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| Gregorian calendar | 1656 MDCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2409 |
| Armenian calendar | 1105 ԹՎ ՌՃԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6406 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1577–1578 |
| Bengali calendar | 1063 |
| Berber calendar | 2606 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Cha. 2 – 8 Cha. 2 (Interregnum) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2200 |
| Burmese calendar | 1018 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7164–7165 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4353 or 4146 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4354 or 4147 |
| Coptic calendar | 1372–1373 |
| Discordian calendar | 2822 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1648–1649 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5416–5417 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1712–1713 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1577–1578 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4756–4757 |
| Holocene calendar | 11656 |
| Igbo calendar | 656–657 |
| Iranian calendar | 1034–1035 |
| Islamic calendar | 1066–1067 |
| Japanese calendar | Meireki 2 (明暦２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1578–1579 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3989 |
| Minguo calendar | 256 before ROC 民前256年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 188 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2198–2199 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1782 or 1401 or 629 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1783 or 1402 or 630 |
1656 (MDCLVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1656th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 656th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1650s decade. As of the start of 1656, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.