There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2862 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 2959 BC, 2948 BC, 2942 BC, 2931 BC, 2920 BC, 2914 BC, 2903 BC, 2892 BC, 2886 BC, 2875 BC in the century before it and 2858 BC, 2847 BC, 2836 BC, 2830 BC, 2819 BC, 2808 BC, 2802 BC, 2791 BC, 2780 BC, 2774 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.