There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
Confucius celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 530 BC was a common year starting on a Sunday, just like 627 BC, 616 BC, 610 BC, 599 BC, 588 BC, 582 BC, 571 BC, 560 BC, 554 BC, 543 BC in the century before it and 526 BC, 515 BC, 504 BC, 498 BC, 487 BC, 476 BC, 470 BC, 459 BC, 448 BC, 442 BC in the next.
The coloured days highlight
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political
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scientific
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artistic
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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.