There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2242 BC was a common year starting on a Tuesday, just like 2339 BC, 2328 BC, 2322 BC, 2311 BC, 2300 BC, 2294 BC, 2283 BC, 2272 BC, 2266 BC, 2255 BC in the century before it and 2238 BC, 2227 BC, 2216 BC, 2210 BC, 2199 BC, 2188 BC, 2182 BC, 2171 BC, 2160 BC, 2154 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.