| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 7th century – 8th century – 9th century |
| Decades: | 760s 770s 780s – 790s – 800s 810s 820s |
| Years: | 793 794 795 – 796 – 797 798 799 |
| 796 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 796 DCCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1549 |
| Armenian calendar | 245 ԹՎ ՄԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5546 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1048–-1047 |
| Bengali calendar | 203 |
| Berber calendar | 1746 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1340 |
| Burmese calendar | 158 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6304–6305 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年十一月十七日 (3432/3492-11-17) — to —
丙子年十一月廿八日(3433/3493-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 512–513 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 788–789 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4556–4557 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 852–853 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 718–719 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3897–3898 |
| Holocene calendar | 10796 |
| Iranian calendar | 174–175 |
| Islamic calendar | 179–180 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3129 |
| Minguo calendar | 1116 before ROC 民前1116年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1339 |
Year 796 (DCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 796 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.