| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 560s 570s 580s 590s 600s 610s 620s |
| Years: | 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 |
| 596 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 596 DXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1349 |
| Armenian calendar | 45 ԹՎ ԽԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1248 – -1247 |
| Bengali calendar | 3 |
| Berber calendar | 1546 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1140 |
| Burmese calendar | -42 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6104 – 6105 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月廿六日 (3232/3292-11-26) — to —
丙辰年十二月初七日(3233/3293-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 312 – 313 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 588 – 589 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4356 – 4357 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 652 – 653 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 518 – 519 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3697 – 3698 |
| Holocene calendar | 10596 |
| Iranian calendar | 26 BP – 25 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 27 BH – 26 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2929 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1139 |