There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
Aristotle and Alexander the Great celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 336 BC was a common year starting on a Thursday, just like 428 BC, 422 BC, 411 BC, 400 BC, 394 BC, 383 BC, 372 BC, 366 BC, 355 BC, 344 BC in the century before it and 327 BC, 316 BC, 310 BC, 299 BC, 288 BC, 282 BC, 271 BC, 260 BC, 254 BC, 243 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.