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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1960s  1970s  1980s  – 1990s –  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years: 1993 1994 199519961997 1998 1999
1996 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1996
MCMXCVI
Ab urbe condita2749
Armenian calendar1445
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԵ
Assyrian calendar6746
Bahá'í calendar152–153
Balinese saka calendar1917–1918
Bengali calendar1403
Berber calendar2946
British Regnal year44 Eliz. 2 – 45 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2540
Burmese calendar1358
Byzantine calendar7504–7505
Chinese calendar乙亥(Wood Pig)
4692 or 4632
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4693 or 4633
Coptic calendar1712–1713
Discordian calendar3162
Ethiopian calendar1988–1989
Hebrew calendar5756–5757
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2052–2053
 - Shaka Samvat1917–1918
 - Kali Yuga5096–5097
Holocene calendar11996
Igbo calendar996–997
Iranian calendar1374–1375
Islamic calendar1416–1417
Japanese calendarHeisei 8
(平成8年)
Javanese calendar1928–1929
Juche calendar85
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4329
Minguo calendarROC 85
民國85年
Nanakshahi calendar528
Thai solar calendar2539
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
2122 or 1741 or 969
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2123 or 1742 or 970
Unix time820454400 – 852076799

1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1996th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade.

The most important events

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Blizzard of January 1996:Snow drifts in Yonkers, New York.
Bill Clinton is reelected as US president.
Zendaya in 2019
Minseo in 2022
Francois Mitterrand
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
Gerry Mulligan
Joseph Brodsky
Jerry Siegel

February

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Gene Kelly
Martin Balsam
Bob Paisley
George Burns
Lucio Fulci
Krzysztof Kieślowski
René Clément
Odysseas Elytis
Edmund Muskie
Greer Garson
Lucille Bremer
Dzhokhar Dudayev
P. L. Travers
Siti Hartinah
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Tamara Toumanova
Timothy Leary
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Jo Van Fleet
Ella Fitzgerald
Andreas Papandreou
Margaux Hemingway
Claudette Colbert
Frida Boccara
Tadeus Reichstein
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Michel Debré
Obdulio Varela
Nevill Francis Mott
António de Spínola
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse

September

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Ernesto Geisel
Spiro Agnew
Paul Erdős
Dorothy Lamour
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Mohammad Najibullah
Silvio Piola
Johnny Costa
René Lacoste
Morey Amsterdam

November

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J. R. Jayewardene
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Abdus Salam
Tiny Tim

December

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Marcello Mastroianni
Carl Sagan

Nobel Prizes

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Movies released

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Hit songs

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New books

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Other websites

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Media related to 1996 at Wikimedia Commons