There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 3170 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 3267 BC, 3256 BC, 3250 BC, 3239 BC, 3228 BC, 3222 BC, 3211 BC, 3200 BC, 3194 BC, 3183 BC in the century before it and 3166 BC, 3155 BC, 3144 BC, 3138 BC, 3127 BC, 3116 BC, 3110 BC, 3099 BC, 3088 BC, 3082 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.