1696

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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1670s; 1680s; 1690s ; 1700s; 1710s;
Years:	1693; 1694; 1695; 1696 ; 1697; 1698; 1699;

Template:C17YearInTopicX Year 1696 (MDCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

The year 1696 had the earliest dates for equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year was the last leap year of the century, and subsequent years (by skipping leap day, also in 1700) allowed the equinoxes to edge towards later dates. However, prior to the 1582 Gregorian reform, the equinoxes were even much earlier, by the extra 10-day shift (see 1903).

Events of 1696

January - June

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.
January - In England, the Recoinage Act is passed in Parliament.
January - Colley Cibber's play "Love's Last Shift" is performed at the Theatre Royal.
March 7 - English king Willem III 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 Saint-Eustatius.

July - December

July 18 - The fleet of Tsar Peter I of Russia occupies Azov at mouth of Don River.
July 29 - French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeus van Savoye sign a peace treaty.
August 13 - The State of Drenthe announces Willem III as mayor.
August 22 - Forces of Venice and Turkish troops clash near Molino.
October 29 - Fuller Baptist Church is founded in Kettering, England.
November 21 - John Vanbrugh's "Relapse or Virtue in Danger" premieres in London.
December 19 - Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris.
December 24 - The Inquisition burns a number of Marrano Jews in Evora, Portugal.

Undated

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.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures and destroys St. John's, Newfoundland.

Births

January 5 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
March 27 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
March 5 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
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)
August 2 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
August 12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
September 27 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d.1787)
October 13 - John Hervey, Lord 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 (d. 1785)
date unknown - Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire (d. 1770)

See also Category: 1696 births.

Deaths

January 11 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
February 8 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
February - Ahom King Supaatphaa or Gadadhar Singha
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 of Poland (b. 1629)
August 2 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe (b. 1630)
September 17 - John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
December 4 - Meishō, empress of Japan (b. 1624)
date unknown - Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin (b. 1651)

See also Category: 1696 deaths.