1976

1976 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1976; MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2729
Armenian calendar	1425; ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6726
Baháʼí calendar	132–133
Balinese saka calendar	1897–1898
Bengali calendar	1382–1383
Berber calendar	2926
British Regnal year	24 Eliz. 2 – 25 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2520
Burmese calendar	1338
Byzantine calendar	7484–7485
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit); 4673 or 4466; — to —; 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon); 4674 or 4467
Coptic calendar	1692–1693
Discordian calendar	3142
Ethiopian calendar	1968–1969
Hebrew calendar	5736–5737
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2032–2033
- Shaka Samvat	1897–1898
- Kali Yuga	5076–5077
Holocene calendar	11976
Igbo calendar	976–977
Iranian calendar	1354–1355
Islamic calendar	1395–1397
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 51; (昭和５１年)
Javanese calendar	1907–1908
Juche calendar	65
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4309
Minguo calendar	ROC 65; 民國65年
Nanakshahi calendar	508
Thai solar calendar	2519
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་; (female Wood-Hare); 2102 or 1721 or 949; — to —; མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་; (male Fire-Dragon); 2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time	189302400 – 220924799

From top to bottom, left to right: Mao Zedong dies, ending a political era in China; the 1976 Tangshan earthquake kills over 240,000 people; the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal face boycotts and controversy; the 1976 Argentine coup d'état topples Isabel Perón; the MV George Prince ferry disaster kills 78 people in Louisiana; the Soweto uprising erupts against apartheid in South Africa; the 1976 Cavalese cable car crash in Italy kills 43; the debut of VHS transforms home video; and the U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.