There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2408 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 2500 BC, 2494 BC, 2483 BC, 2472 BC, 2466 BC, 2455 BC, 2444 BC, 2438 BC, 2427 BC, 2416 BC in the century before it and 2399 BC, 2388 BC, 2382 BC, 2371 BC, 2360 BC, 2354 BC, 2343 BC, 2332 BC, 2326 BC, 2315 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.