| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s |
| Years: | 993 994 995 – 996 – 997 998 999 |
| 996 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 996 CMXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1749 |
| Armenian calendar | 445 ԹՎ ՆԽԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -848 – -847 |
| Bengali calendar | 403 |
| Berber calendar | 1946 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1540 |
| Burmese calendar | 358 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6504 – 6505 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年十二月初八日 (3632/3692-12-8) — to —
丙申年十一月十九日(3633/3693-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 712 – 713 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 988 – 989 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4756 – 4757 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1052 – 1053 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 918 – 919 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4097 – 4098 |
| Holocene calendar | 10996 |
| Iranian calendar | 374 – 375 |
| Islamic calendar | 385 – 386 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3329 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1539 |