There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 3742 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 3839 BC, 3828 BC, 3822 BC, 3811 BC, 3800 BC, 3794 BC, 3783 BC, 3772 BC, 3766 BC, 3755 BC in the century before it and 3738 BC, 3727 BC, 3716 BC, 3710 BC, 3699 BC, 3688 BC, 3682 BC, 3671 BC, 3660 BC, 3654 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.