There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2978 BC was a common year starting on a Saturday, just like 3075 BC, 3064 BC, 3058 BC, 3047 BC, 3036 BC, 3030 BC, 3019 BC, 3008 BC, 3002 BC, 2991 BC in the century before it and 2974 BC, 2963 BC, 2952 BC, 2946 BC, 2935 BC, 2924 BC, 2918 BC, 2907 BC, 2896 BC, 2890 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.