There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1405 BC was a common year starting on a Friday, just like 1502 BC, 1491 BC, 1480 BC, 1474 BC, 1463 BC, 1452 BC, 1446 BC, 1435 BC, 1424 BC, 1418 BC in the century before it and 1396 BC, 1390 BC, 1379 BC, 1368 BC, 1362 BC, 1351 BC, 1340 BC, 1334 BC, 1323 BC, 1312 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.