| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Years: |
| 196 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 196 CXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 949 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4946 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 117–118 |
| Bengali calendar | −397 |
| Berber calendar | 1146 |
| Buddhist calendar | 740 |
| Burmese calendar | −442 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5704–5705 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 2893 or 2686 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 2894 or 2687 |
| Coptic calendar | −88 – −87 |
| Discordian calendar | 1362 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 188–189 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3956–3957 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 252–253 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 117–118 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3296–3297 |
| Holocene calendar | 10196 |
| Iranian calendar | 426 BP – 425 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 439 BH – 438 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 73–74 |
| Julian calendar | 196 CXCVI |
| Korean calendar | 2529 |
| Minguo calendar | 1716 before ROC 民前1716年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1272 |
| Seleucid era | 507/508 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 738–739 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 322 or −59 or −831 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 323 or −58 or −830 |
Year 196 (CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 196 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.