| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5346 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1248–-1247 |
| Bengali calendar | 3 |
| Berber calendar | 1546 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| 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 | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 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 |
| Minguo calendar | 1316 before ROC 民前1316年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1139 |
Year 596 (DXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 596 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.