| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Years: |
| 996 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 996 CMXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1749 |
| Armenian calendar | 445 ԹՎ ՆԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5746 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 917–918 |
| Bengali calendar | 403 |
| Berber calendar | 1946 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1540 |
| Burmese calendar | 358 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6504–6505 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3693 or 3486 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3694 or 3487 |
| Coptic calendar | 712–713 |
| Discordian calendar | 2162 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 988–989 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4756–4757 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1052–1053 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 917–918 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4096–4097 |
| Holocene calendar | 10996 |
| Iranian calendar | 374–375 |
| Islamic calendar | 385–386 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōtoku 2 (長徳２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 897–898 |
| Julian calendar | 996 CMXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3329 |
| Minguo calendar | 916 before ROC 民前916年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −472 |
| Seleucid era | 1307/1308 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1538–1539 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1122 or 741 or −31 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1123 or 742 or −30 |
Year 996 (CMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.