1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday in 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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1940s  1950s  1960s  – 1970s –  1980s  1990s  2000s
Years: 1973 1974 197519761977 1978 1979
1976 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1976
MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2729
Armenian calendar1425
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6726
Bahá'í calendar132–133
Balinese saka calendar1897–1898
Bengali calendar1383
Berber calendar2926
British Regnal year24 Eliz. 2 – 25 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2520
Burmese calendar1338
Byzantine calendar7484–7485
Chinese calendar乙卯(Wood Rabbit)
4672 or 4612
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4673 or 4613
Coptic calendar1692–1693
Discordian calendar3142
Ethiopian calendar1968–1969
Hebrew calendar5736–5737
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2032–2033
 - Shaka Samvat1897–1898
 - Kali Yuga5076–5077
Holocene calendar11976
Igbo calendar976–977
Iranian calendar1354–1355
Islamic calendar1395–1397
Japanese calendarShōwa 51
(昭和51年)
Javanese calendar1907–1908
Juche calendar65
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4309
Minguo calendarROC 65
民國65年
Nanakshahi calendar508
Thai solar calendar2519
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2102 or 1721 or 949
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time189302400 – 220924799

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Zhou Enlai
 
Agatha Christie
 
Paul Robeson

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Werner Heisenberg
 
Sal Mineo
 
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
 
Bernard Montgomery
 
Zhu De
 
Gustav Heinemann

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Fritz Lang
 
Kazi Nazrul Islam

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Mao Zedong

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Rosalind Russell

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Benjamin Britten
 
João Goulart

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