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Summary
Year 696 (DCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday the (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 696 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.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 696 DCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1449 |
| Armenian calendar | 145 ԹՎ ՃԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5446 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 617–618 |
| Bengali calendar | 103 |
| Berber calendar | 1646 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1240 |
| Burmese calendar | 58 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6204–6205 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3393 or 3186 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3394 or 3187 |
| Coptic calendar | 412–413 |
| Discordian calendar | 1862 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 688–689 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4456–4457 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 752–753 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 617–618 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3796–3797 |
| Holocene calendar | 10696 |
| Iranian calendar | 74–75 |
| Islamic calendar | 76–77 |
| Japanese calendar | Shuchō 11 (朱鳥１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 588–589 |
| Julian calendar | 696 DCXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 3029 |
| Minguo calendar | 1216 before ROC 民前1216年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −772 |
| Seleucid era | 1007/1008 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1238–1239 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 822 or 441 or −331 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 823 or 442 or −330 |
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Religion edit
- St. Peter's Abbey is founded by Rupert, bishop of Worms, at Salzburg (modern Austria).
Births edit
- Vijayaditya, king of the Chalukya dynasty (d. 733)
- Kim Gyo-gak, Korean Buddhist monk (d. 794)
Disputed edit
- Osred I of Northumbria, King of Northumbria from 705 until his death in 716.
Deaths edit
- August 13 – Takechi, Japanese prince (b. c. 654)
- Domnall Donn, king of Dál Riata (Scotland)
- Vinayaditya of Vatapi, king of the Chalukya dynasty and predecessor of Vijayaditya.
- Woncheuk, Korean Buddhist monk (b. c. 613)