1296

1296 (MCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1296th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 296th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 13th century, and the 7th year of the 1290s decade. As of the start of 1296, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	12th century – 13th century – 14th century
Decades:	1260s  1270s  1280s  – 1290s –  1300s  1310s  1320s
Years:	1293 1294 1295 – 1296 – 1297 1298 1299

1296 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2049
Armenian calendar	745 ԹՎ ՉԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6046
Balinese saka calendar	1217–1218
Bengali calendar	703
Berber calendar	2246
English Regnal year	24 Edw. 1 – 25 Edw. 1
Buddhist calendar	1840
Burmese calendar	658
Byzantine calendar	6804–6805
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3992 or 3932     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3993 or 3933
Coptic calendar	1012–1013
Discordian calendar	2462
Ethiopian calendar	1288–1289
Hebrew calendar	5056–5057
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1352–1353
- Shaka Samvat	1217–1218
- Kali Yuga	4396–4397
Holocene calendar	11296
Igbo calendar	296–297
Iranian calendar	674–675
Islamic calendar	695–696
Japanese calendar	Einin 4 (永仁４年)
Javanese calendar	1207–1208
Julian calendar	1296 MCCXCVI
Korean calendar	3629
Minguo calendar	616 before ROC 民前616年
Nanakshahi calendar	−172
Thai solar calendar	1838–1839
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1422 or 1041 or 269     — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1423 or 1042 or 270

Events

• April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.

Births

• August 10: King John I of Bohemia