There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
Confucius celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 548 BC was a common year starting on a Friday, just like 640 BC, 634 BC, 623 BC, 612 BC, 606 BC, 601 BC, 595 BC, 584 BC, 578 BC, 567 BC, 556 BC in the century before it and 539 BC, 528 BC, 522 BC, 511 BC, 500 BC, 494 BC, 483 BC, 472 BC, 466 BC, 455 BC in the next.
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The new
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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.