| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 796 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 796 DCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1549 |
| Armenian calendar | 245 ԹՎ ՄԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5546 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 717–718 |
| Bengali calendar | 203 |
| Berber calendar | 1746 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1340 |
| Burmese calendar | 158 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6304–6305 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3493 or 3286 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3494 or 3287 |
| Coptic calendar | 512–513 |
| Discordian calendar | 1962 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 788–789 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4556–4557 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 852–853 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 717–718 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3896–3897 |
| Holocene calendar | 10796 |
| Iranian calendar | 174–175 |
| Islamic calendar | 179–180 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 15 (延暦１５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 691–692 |
| Julian calendar | 796 DCCXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3129 |
| Minguo calendar | 1116 before ROC 民前1116年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −672 |
| Seleucid era | 1107/1108 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1338–1339 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 922 or 541 or −231 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 923 or 542 or −230 |
Year 796 (DCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 796th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 796th year of the 1st millennium, the 96th year of the 8th century, and the 7th year of the 790s decade. The denomination 796 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.