There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 1974 BC was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 2071 BC, 2060 BC, 2054 BC, 2043 BC, 2032 BC, 2026 BC, 2015 BC, 2004 BC, 1998 BC, 1987 BC in the century before it and 1970 BC, 1959 BC, 1948 BC, 1942 BC, 1931 BC, 1920 BC, 1914 BC, 1903 BC, 1892 BC, 1886 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.