1696
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s |
| Years: | 1693 1694 1695 – 1696 – 1697 1698 1699 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1696 MDCXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2449 |
| Armenian calendar | 1145 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6446 |
| Bengali calendar | 1103 |
| Berber calendar | 2646 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Will. 3 – 9 Will. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2240 |
| Burmese calendar | 1058 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7204–7205 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4392 or 4332 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4393 or 4333 |
| Coptic calendar | 1412–1413 |
| Discordian calendar | 2862 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1688–1689 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5456–5457 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1752–1753 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1618–1619 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4797–4798 |
| Holocene calendar | 11696 |
| Igbo calendar | 696–697 |
| Iranian calendar | 1074–1075 |
| Islamic calendar | 1107–1108 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 9 (元禄９年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 4029 |
| Minguo calendar | 216 before ROC 民前216年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2238–2239 |
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January 27: HMS Sovereign of the Seas accidentally burns.
Year 1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January – In England:
- Great Recoinage of 1696: The Parliament of England passes the Recoinage Act.
- Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
- January 27 – In England, the ship HMS Royal Sovereign (formerly HMS Sovereign of the Seas, 1638) catches fire and burns at Chatham, after 57 years of service.
- January 29 (O.S.) – Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia, upon the death of Tsar Ivan V.
- January 31 – In the Netherlands, undertakers revolt after funeral reforms in Amsterdam.
- March 7 – King William III of England departs from the Netherlands.
- April – Fire destroys the Gra Bet (or Left Quarter) of Gondar, the capital of Ethiopia.
- May 31 – John Salomonsz is elected chief of Sint Eustatius.
July–December
- July 18 – The fleet of Tsar Peter The Great occupies Azov at the mouth of the Don River.
- July 29 – King Louis XIV of France and Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy, sign a peace treaty.
- August 13 – The Dutch state of Drenthe makes William III of Orange its Stadtholder.
- August 22 – Forces of the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire clash near Andros.
- November 21 – John Vanbrugh's play The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.
- December 7 – Connecticut Route 108, one of Connecticut's oldest highways is laid-out to Trumbull.
- December 19 – Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris.
- December 24 – The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Évora, Portugal.
Date unknown
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures and destroys St. John's, Newfoundland.
- Polish replaces Ruthenian as an official language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- A famine wipes out almost a third of the population of Finland and a fifth of the population of Estonia.
- Abington, Pennsylvania, is settled.
- William Penn offers an elaborate plan for intercolonial cooperation largely in trade, defense, and criminal matters.
- The Second Pueblo Revolt occurs.
- Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner) probably begins publication of Lloyd's News, a predecessor of Lloyd's List, in London.
Births
- January 5 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
- March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
- March 27 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
- June 11 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
- June 27 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier (d. 1759)
- July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
- July 24 – Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)
- August 2 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- August 12 – Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
- September 27 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptorist Order (d.1787)
- October 10 – Chen Hongmou, Chinese scholar and philosopher (d. 1771)
- October 13 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
- November 2 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Iroquois Confederacy (d. 1760)
- December 22 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia as a colony (d. 1785)
Deaths
- January 11 – Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
- February – Ahom King Supaatphaa or Gadadhar Singha
- February 8 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
- March 14 – Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
- March 18 – Robert Charnock, English conspirator (b. c. 1663)
- April 17 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French writer (b. 1626)
- April 30 – Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
- May 10 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
- May 26 – Albertine Agnes of Nassau, regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (b. 1634)
- May 30 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
- June 17 – John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
- August 2 – Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
- December 4 – Meisho, empress of Japan (b. 1624)
- date unknown – Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin (b. 1651)