There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 2997 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 3094 BC, 3083 BC, 3072 BC, 3066 BC, 3055 BC, 3044 BC, 3038 BC, 3027 BC, 3016 BC, 3010 BC in the century before it and 2988 BC, 2982 BC, 2971 BC, 2960 BC, 2954 BC, 2943 BC, 2932 BC, 2926 BC, 2915 BC, 2904 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.