There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1049 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 1146 BC, 1135 BC, 1124 BC, 1118 BC, 1107 BC, 1096 BC, 1090 BC, 1079 BC, 1068 BC, 1062 BC in the century before it and 1040 BC, 1034 BC, 1023 BC, 1012 BC, 1006 BC, 1001 BC, 995 BC, 984 BC, 978 BC, 967 BC, 956 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.