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Calendar year
Millennium:
2nd millennium
Centuries:
16th century
17th century
18th century
Decades:
1670s
1680s
1690s
1700s
1710s
Years:
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698
1699
July 18: Russia captures the city of Azov from the Ottoman Empire.
1696 by topic
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1696 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1696 MDCXCVI
Ab urbe condita
2449
Armenian calendar
1145 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԵ
Assyrian calendar
6446
Balinese saka calendar
1617–1618
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) 4393 or 4186 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4394 or 4187
Coptic calendar
1412–1413
Discordian calendar
2862
Ethiopian calendar
1688–1689
Hebrew calendar
5456–5457
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1752–1753
- Shaka Samvat
1617–1618
- Kali Yuga
4796–4797
Holocene calendar
11696
Igbo calendar
696–697
Iranian calendar
1074–1075
Islamic calendar
1107–1108
Japanese calendar
Genroku 9 (元禄９年)
Javanese calendar
1619–1620
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar
4029
Minguo calendar
216 before ROC 民前216年
Nanakshahi calendar
228
Thai solar calendar
2238–2239
Tibetan calendar
阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1822 or 1441 or 669 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1823 or 1442 or 670
January 27: HMS Sovereign of the Seas accidentally burns.
1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1696th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 696th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1696, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1696th year...
Anno 1696 is the ninth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium, released on 24 February 2023 via Century Media. Insomnium began working...
Bridlington is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is on the Holderness part (Flamborough Head to the Humber estuary)...
further developed and tightened by the Navigation Acts of 1663, 1673, and 1696. Upon this basis during the 18th century, the Acts were modified by subsequent...
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The year 1696 in science and technology involved some significant events. Daniel Le Clerc publishes Histoire de la médecine in Geneva, the first comprehensive...
number of people were indiscriminately killed in the Edo period was the 1696 Yoshiwara spree killing (吉原百人斬り, Yoshiwara hyakunin giri; lit. "Yoshiwara...
and Ireland in early 1696. One of a series of plots by Jacobites to reverse the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, the plot of 1696 had been preceded by...
– Craigiehall, near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce. 1696 Main façades of Chatsworth House completed to designs of William Talman in...
(German: Hermann Moritz von Sachsen, French: Maurice de Saxe; 28 October 1696 – 20 November 1750) was a notable soldier, officer and a famed military commander...
and spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1699) and Master (1699–1727) of the Royal Mint, as well as president of the...
Licensing Act and so cleared the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696. Censorship had already been relaxed following the Bill of Rights 1689. It...
(1688–1697), leaving Mary to govern Britain alone. She died in 1694. In 1696 the Jacobites, a faction loyal to the deposed James, plotted unsuccessfully...
After falling under Ottoman Empire rule, Montenegro gained semi-autonomy in 1696 under the rule of the House of Petrović-Njegoš, first as a theocracy and...
The Great Recoinage of 1696 was an attempt by the English Government under King William III to replace the hammered silver that made up most of the coinage...
his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, Peter was an absolute monarch, an autocrat who remained...
Events in the year 1696 in India. National income - ₹7,877 million Building of the fort of Calcutta. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent...
1696 Nurmela, provisional designation 1939 FF, is a Baptistina asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles)...
1692: October 31 - Anne Claude de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765) 1696: Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771) 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary...
was an instrument created after the failed Jacobite assassination plot of 1696 to pledge loyalty to William III of England. Modelled by Lord Somers on the...
ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1696. In September 1705, whilst under the command of Captain Samuel Martin Blackwall...
Events from the year 1696 in England. Monarch – William III January Great Recoinage of 1696: The Parliament of England passes the Recoinage Act. Colley...
Events from the year 1696 in France Monarch – Louis XIV The Edict of 1696 This Edict stated that for a coat of arms to be valid, it had to be registered...
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