There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2872 BC was a common year starting on a Friday, just like 2964 BC, 2958 BC, 2947 BC, 2936 BC, 2930 BC, 2919 BC, 2908 BC, 2902 BC, 2891 BC, 2880 BC in the century before it and 2863 BC, 2852 BC, 2846 BC, 2835 BC, 2824 BC, 2818 BC, 2807 BC, 2796 BC, 2790 BC, 2779 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.