There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 960 BC was a common year starting on a Monday, just like 1052 BC, 1046 BC, 1035 BC, 1024 BC, 1018 BC, 1007 BC, 996 BC, 990 BC, 979 BC, 968 BC in the century before it and 951 BC, 940 BC, 934 BC, 923 BC, 912 BC, 906 BC, 901 BC, 895 BC, 884 BC, 878 BC, 867 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.