There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2988 BC was a common year starting on a Sunday, just like 3080 BC, 3074 BC, 3063 BC, 3052 BC, 3046 BC, 3035 BC, 3024 BC, 3018 BC, 3007 BC, 2996 BC in the century before it and 2979 BC, 2968 BC, 2962 BC, 2951 BC, 2940 BC, 2934 BC, 2923 BC, 2912 BC, 2906 BC, 2901 BC, 2895 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.