There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2046 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 2143 BC, 2132 BC, 2126 BC, 2115 BC, 2104 BC, 2098 BC, 2087 BC, 2076 BC, 2070 BC, 2059 BC in the century before it and 2042 BC, 2031 BC, 2020 BC, 2014 BC, 2003 BC, 1992 BC, 1986 BC, 1975 BC, 1964 BC, 1958 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.