696

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

696 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	696 DCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	1449
Armenian calendar	145 ԹՎ ՃԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	5446
Bengali calendar	103
Berber calendar	1646
Buddhist calendar	1240
Burmese calendar	58
Byzantine calendar	6204–6205
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3392 or 3332     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3393 or 3333
Coptic calendar	412–413
Discordian calendar	1862
Ethiopian calendar	688–689
Hebrew calendar	4456–4457
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	752–753
- Shaka Samvat	617–618
- Kali Yuga	3796–3797
Holocene calendar	10696
Iranian calendar	74–75
Islamic calendar	76–77
Japanese calendar	N/A
Javanese calendar	588–589
Julian calendar	696 DCXCVI
Korean calendar	3029
Minguo calendar	1216 before ROC 民前1216年
Nanakshahi calendar	−772
Seleucid era	1007/1008 AG
Thai solar calendar	1238–1239

Rupert of Salzburg (c. 660–710)

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.

Events

By topic

Religion

• St. Peter's Abbey is founded by Rupert, bishop of Worms, at Salzburg (modern Austria).

Deaths

• June 8 – Chlodulf, bishop of Metz (or 697)
• Domnall Donn, king of Dál Riata (Scotland)
• August 13 – Takechi, Japanese prince
• Vinayaditya, king of Chalukya (India)
• Woncheuk, Korean Buddhist monk (b. 613)

References