996
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 1st millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 996 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
| Categories | 
| 
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| Gregorian calendar | 996 CMXCVI | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1749 | 
| Armenian calendar | 445 ԹՎ ՆԽԵ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5746 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 917–918 | 
| Bengali calendar | 402–403 | 
| 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 of the Julian calendar.