There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 3988 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 4080 BC, 4074 BC, 4063 BC, 4052 BC, 4046 BC, 4035 BC, 4024 BC, 4018 BC, 4007 BC, 3996 BC in the century before it and 3979 BC, 3968 BC, 3962 BC, 3951 BC, 3940 BC, 3934 BC, 3923 BC, 3912 BC, 3906 BC, 3901 BC, 3895 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.