| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 6th century – 7th century – 8th century |
| Decades: | 660s 670s 680s – 690s – 700s 710s 720s |
| Years: | 693 694 695 – 696 – 697 698 699 |
| 696 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 696 DCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1449 |
| Armenian calendar | 145 ԹՎ ՃԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5446 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1148–-1147 |
| Bengali calendar | 103 |
| Berber calendar | 1646 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1240 |
| Burmese calendar | 58 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6204–6205 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年正月廿一日 (3332/3392-1-21) — to —
丙申年二月初二日(3333/3393-2-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 412–413 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 688–689 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4456–4457 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 752–753 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 618–619 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3797–3798 |
| Holocene calendar | 10696 |
| Iranian calendar | 74–75 |
| Islamic calendar | 76–77 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3029 |
| Minguo calendar | 1216 before ROC 民前1216年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1239 |
Year 696 (DCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 696 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.