| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 260s 270s 280s – 290s – 300s 310s 320s |
| Years: | 293 294 295 – 296 – 297 298 299 |
| 296 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 296 CCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1049 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5046 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1548–-1547 |
| Bengali calendar | -297 |
| Berber calendar | 1246 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 840 |
| Burmese calendar | -342 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5804–5805 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙卯年十一月初九日 (2932/2992-11-9) — to —
丙辰年十一月二十日(2933/2993-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 12–13 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 288–289 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4056–4057 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 352–353 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 218–219 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3397–3398 |
| Holocene calendar | 10296 |
| Iranian calendar | 326 BP – 325 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 336 BH – 335 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2629 |
| Minguo calendar | 1616 before ROC 民前1616年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 839 |
Year 296 (CCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Constantius (or, less frequently, year 1049 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 296 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.