There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1626 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 1723 BC, 1712 BC, 1706 BC, 1701 BC, 1695 BC, 1684 BC, 1678 BC, 1667 BC, 1656 BC, 1650 BC, 1639 BC in the century before it and 1622 BC, 1611 BC, 1600 BC, 1594 BC, 1583 BC, 1572 BC, 1566 BC, 1555 BC, 1544 BC, 1538 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.