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| | The dates are real, the events are not... well, except when fictional characters participate in real events, then the events ARE real, you know, sort of, but not really, because they're different than the actual event. | | Timeline Eras | | | Year: 1996 | - 1996
- February 14
- Parks and Recreation 2009 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Date of an entry in Ron's photo journal of his visits to Charles Mulligan's steakhouse: "The steak: rib-eye. The whiskey: Lagavulin 16. The lady next to me: A bitch. Specifically, my ex-wife Tammy." (Season 3 episode Indianapolis)
- February 24
- The 4400 2004 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Future 4400 returnee Edwin Musinga, wanted by the Rwandan government since 1995 for crimes of aiding and abetting genocide, disappears, changing his name to Edwin Mayuya upon his return. (Season 2 episode Rebirth)
- March 12
- Mission: Impossible 1996 Film | Source Timeline
 - Ethan Hunt and his team interrogate U.S. Embassy Prague attaché and traitor Alexander Golitsyn for his contact in Minsk, after he stole one half of a CIA NOC list, a record of all the deep cover agents working in Eastern Europe.
- April
- April 8
- Seinfeld 1989 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Date that Jerry and Elaine's friend David mistakes for his and his wife's third wedding anniversary when he is out with Elaine - the actual date is April 10th. (Season 7 episode The Wait Out)
- April 10
- Seinfeld 1989 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Jerry and Elaine's friends Beth and David's third wedding anniversary. While out to dinner with Elaine, he says the wrong date, and she corrects him. (Season 7 episode The Wait Out)
- April 11
- Smallville 2001 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Three days before Lana's best friend Emily Eve Dinsmore drowns in Elbow River, in which she wrote in her journal, "Saturday. Today I went down to my friend Elisabeth's house. She has a new dollhouse and lots of dolls. We made cookies and played. Daddy picked me up and he made hamburgers.” According to the article in the Smallville Ledger shown earlier, Emily drowns on April 14, 1996. But April 14 was a Sunday, making April 11 a Thursday, meaning either Emily got the day of week wrong in her journal, or it was simply an oversight by the crew. (Season 2 episode Accelerate)
- April 12
- The Simpsons 1989 Animated Series | Source Timeline
 - Principal Skinner declares Friday "Go To Work With Your Parents Day" in order to avoid paying the exorbitant cost to change the date on his SkyAmeriWestica ticket to Hong Kong, where he travels for Spring Break. (Season 7 episode Bart on the Road)
- Smallville 2001 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - The day before Lana's best friend Emily Eve Dinsmore drowns in Elbow River, in which she wrote in her journal, "Monday. I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. Lana and I are going to the river. We are going to be best friends forever.” According to the article in the Smallville Ledger shown earlier, Emily drowns on April 14, 1996. But April 14 was a Sunday, making April 13 a Saturday, meaning either Emily got the day of week wrong in her journal, or it was simply an oversight by the crew. (Season 2 episode Accelerate)
- July
- July 2
- Independence Day 1996 Film | Source Timeline
 - The War of 1996 begins. A massive alien mothership entered Earth's orbit, deploying 36 City Destroyers to annihilate the world's largest cities. Within 48 hours, 108 cities were reduced to ashes.
- Independence Day: Resurgence 2016 Film | Source Timeline
 - Arrival & attack. On July 2, 1996 a massive alien mothership entered the Earth's orbit, deploying 36 City Destroyers to annihilate the world's largest cities. Over the next 48 hours, 108 cities were reduced to ashes, until a united, globally coordinated counterattack took out the alien's motehrship - halting their fourth wave of attacks and eliminating the extraterrestrial threat. (Promotional website: The War of 1996)
- July 3
- Independence Day 1996 Film | Source Timeline
 - Human military forces launch individual counterattacks against the invaders. However, the City Destroyers are protected by force-fields. The counterattacks are quickly turn into a one-sided rout.
- July 4
- Independence Day 1996 Film | Source Timeline
 - Earth's nations launch a united, globally coordinated counteroffensive which destroyed the alien mothership - halting their fourth wave of attacks and eliminating the extraterrestrial threat.
- Seinfeld 1989 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Jerry and the gang went to see fireworks, which Jerry reminds Kramer about when Elaine returns from a six week trip to Mexico. (Season 8 episode The Foundation)
- September
- September 7
- Future Man 2017 TV Series | Source Timeline
 - Tupac Shakur is not murdered in Las Vegas, Nevada. J1, also known as nut-face Josh, travels back in time, rescuing his heroes that died prematurely and taking them to Haven, A town that exists outside of time and space. (Season 3 episode Haven is for Real)
- November 7
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century 1733 Literature | Source Timeline
- Date mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer in letter from N----m dated February 2, 1997. "My Lord, I Am ashamed to acknowledge so late, that through a load of affairs of importunate People, that engross my time and thoughts, I have so long referred you to Mr. Secretary, and am but now returning my thanks for two of yours Excellency's Letters from Rome, one of November the seventh, and another of January the seventeenth; for both which I am indebted to your care and goodness, beyond all possibility of repaying you."
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century 1733 Literature | Source Timeline
- Date of letter mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer, mentioned in letter dated March 8, 1997. "My Lord, Since mine of the 29th of November and 17th of January, I have receiv'd but one short one from your Lordship of the 26th of February, in which you acknowledge the receipt of mine, and are so good as to desire the continuance of my correspondence, and to express some satisfaction in the accounts I have hitherto had the happiness to send you."
- November 29
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century 1733 Literature | Source Timeline
- Date mentioned in Clare's letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated January 27, 1997. "My Lord, I Have the Pleasure of your Command by Mr. Secretary of January the 3d, and am highly delighted that I have in some measure answer'd your Expectations by mine of the 29th of November last; and as I shall faithfully pursue my Instructions, and particularly the Hints in Cypher, so if any thing new arises, I shall use my best Diligence to give the earliest Intelligence, and in the mean time shall act as my present Lights shall direct me."
- December 16
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century 1733 Literature | Source Timeline
- Date of Herbert's previous letter, mentioned in letter to the Lord High Treasurer dated February 8, 1997. "My Lord, My last from this place to your Lordship, was of December the sixteenth; and I have since, pursuant to your commands, given Mr. Secretary the trouble of two Letters, of the first and thirteenth of last Month. I now return, because you are pleased to have it so, to go on with the long account of Affairs here, since I have sufficiently answered all other particulars, relating to our Negotiations at this Court, in those two former ones."
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