There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1502 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 1599 BC, 1588 BC, 1582 BC, 1571 BC, 1560 BC, 1554 BC, 1543 BC, 1532 BC, 1526 BC, 1515 BC in the century before it and 1498 BC, 1487 BC, 1476 BC, 1470 BC, 1459 BC, 1448 BC, 1442 BC, 1431 BC, 1420 BC, 1414 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.