2006

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Other topics
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Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
2006 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 2006
MMVI
Ab urbe condita 2759
Armenian calendar 1455
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԵ
Assyrian calendar 6756
Bahá'í calendar 162–163
Bengali calendar 1413
Berber calendar 2956
British Regnal year 54 Eliz. 2 – 55 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2550
Burmese calendar 1368
Byzantine calendar 7514–7515
Chinese calendar 乙酉年十二月初二日
(4642/4702-12-2)
— to —
丙戌年十一月十二日
(4643/4703-11-12)
Coptic calendar 1722–1723
Ethiopian calendar 1998–1999
Hebrew calendar 5766–5767
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2062–2063
 - Shaka Samvat 1928–1929
 - Kali Yuga 5107–5108
Holocene calendar 12006
Iranian calendar 1384–1385
Islamic calendar 1426–1427
Japanese calendar Heisei 18
(平成18年)
Korean calendar 4339
Minguo calendar ROC 95
民國95年
Thai solar calendar 2549
Unix time 1136073600–1167609599

2006 (MMVI) was a common year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2006th year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 7th of the 2000s decade.

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