1596

1596 (MDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1596th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 596th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1596, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1560s  1570s  1580s  – 1590s –  1600s  1610s  1620s
Years:	1593 1594 1595 – 1596 – 1597 1598 1599

1596 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1596 MDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2349
Armenian calendar	1045 ԹՎ ՌԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6346
Balinese saka calendar	1517–1518
Bengali calendar	1003
Berber calendar	2546
English Regnal year	38 Eliz. 1 – 39 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2140
Burmese calendar	958
Byzantine calendar	7104–7105
Chinese calendar	乙未おとみ年とし (Wood Goat) 4292 or 4232     — to — 丙へい申さる年ねん (Fire Monkey) 4293 or 4233
Coptic calendar	1312–1313
Discordian calendar	2762
Ethiopian calendar	1588–1589
Hebrew calendar	5356–5357
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1652–1653
- Shaka Samvat	1517–1518
- Kali Yuga	4696–4697
Holocene calendar	11596
Igbo calendar	596–597
Iranian calendar	974–975
Islamic calendar	1004–1005
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 5 / Keichō 1 (慶長けいちょう元年がんねん)
Javanese calendar	1516–1517
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3929
Minguo calendar	316 before ROC 民みん前まえ316年ねん
Nanakshahi calendar	128
Thai solar calendar	2138–2139
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊ひつじ年ねん (female Wood-Goat) 1722 or 1341 or 569     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1723 or 1342 or 570

Births

• March 31 – René Descartes, French philosopher and physicist
• June 29 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
• Micheal I of Russia, Russian Tsar

Deaths

• January 28 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer

Events

• Warsaw becomes the capital of Poland.
• The Cudel War starts in Finland