| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 656 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 656 DCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1409 |
| Armenian calendar | 105 ԹՎ ՃԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5406 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 577–578 |
| Bengali calendar | 63 |
| Berber calendar | 1606 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1200 |
| Burmese calendar | 18 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6164–6165 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3353 or 3146 — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3354 or 3147 |
| Coptic calendar | 372–373 |
| Discordian calendar | 1822 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 648–649 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4416–4417 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 712–713 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 577–578 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3756–3757 |
| Holocene calendar | 10656 |
| Iranian calendar | 34–35 |
| Islamic calendar | 35–36 |
| Japanese calendar | Hakuchi 7 (白雉７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 547–548 |
| Julian calendar | 656 DCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 2989 |
| Minguo calendar | 1256 before ROC 民前1256年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −812 |
| Seleucid era | 967/968 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1198–1199 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 782 or 401 or −371 — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 783 or 402 or −370 |
Year 656 (DCLVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 656 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.