| 0 : | | Euripides, Greek playwright, the last of the great tragedians of classical Athens (the others being Aeschylus and Sophocles), dies in Macedonia aged around 74. |
| 15 April: | | The temple of Athena burns during a lunar eclipse. |
Socrates celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 406 BC was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 503 BC, 492 BC, 486 BC, 475 BC, 464 BC, 458 BC, 447 BC, 436 BC, 430 BC, 419 BC in the century before it and 402 BC, 391 BC, 380 BC, 374 BC, 363 BC, 352 BC, 346 BC, 335 BC, 324 BC, 318 BC in the next.
The coloured days highlight
births
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deaths,
political
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scientific
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artistic
and
other historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays
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The new
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waxing
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full
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waning
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.