There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2016 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 2108 BC, 2102 BC, 2091 BC, 2080 BC, 2074 BC, 2063 BC, 2052 BC, 2046 BC, 2035 BC, 2024 BC in the century before it and 2007 BC, 1996 BC, 1990 BC, 1979 BC, 1968 BC, 1962 BC, 1951 BC, 1940 BC, 1934 BC, 1923 BC in the next.
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The new
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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.