There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 690 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 787 BC, 776 BC, 770 BC, 759 BC, 748 BC, 742 BC, 731 BC, 720 BC, 714 BC, 703 BC in the century before it and 686 BC, 675 BC, 664 BC, 658 BC, 647 BC, 636 BC, 630 BC, 619 BC, 608 BC, 602 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.