There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 3542 BC was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 3639 BC, 3628 BC, 3622 BC, 3611 BC, 3600 BC, 3594 BC, 3583 BC, 3572 BC, 3566 BC, 3555 BC in the century before it and 3538 BC, 3527 BC, 3516 BC, 3510 BC, 3499 BC, 3488 BC, 3482 BC, 3471 BC, 3460 BC, 3454 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.