There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1456 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 1548 BC, 1542 BC, 1531 BC, 1520 BC, 1514 BC, 1503 BC, 1492 BC, 1486 BC, 1475 BC, 1464 BC in the century before it and 1447 BC, 1436 BC, 1430 BC, 1419 BC, 1408 BC, 1402 BC, 1391 BC, 1380 BC, 1374 BC, 1363 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?2018 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.