There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 6243 BC was a leap year starting on a Monday, just like 6345 BC, 6341 BC, 6337 BC, 6333 BC, 6329 BC, 6325 BC, 6321 BC, 6317 BC, 6313 BC, 6309 BC, 6305 BC, 6297 BC, 6293 BC, 6289 BC, 6285 BC, 6281 BC, 6277 BC, 6273 BC, 6269 BC, 6265 BC, 6261 BC, 6257 BC, 6253 BC, 6249 BC in the century before it and 6241 BC, 6237 BC, 6233 BC, 6229 BC, 6225 BC, 6221 BC, 6217 BC, 6213 BC, 6209 BC, 6205 BC, 6197 BC, 6193 BC, 6189 BC, 6185 BC, 6181 BC, 6177 BC, 6173 BC, 6169 BC, 6165 BC, 6161 BC, 6157 BC, 6153 BC, 6149 BC, 6145 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.