There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2496 BC was a common year starting on a Saturday, just like 2588 BC, 2582 BC, 2571 BC, 2560 BC, 2554 BC, 2543 BC, 2532 BC, 2526 BC, 2515 BC, 2504 BC in the century before it and 2487 BC, 2476 BC, 2470 BC, 2459 BC, 2448 BC, 2442 BC, 2431 BC, 2420 BC, 2414 BC, 2403 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.