There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
The year 996 BC was a common year starting on a Friday, just like 1088 BC, 1082 BC, 1071 BC, 1060 BC, 1054 BC, 1043 BC, 1032 BC, 1026 BC, 1015 BC, 1004 BC in the century before it and 987 BC, 976 BC, 970 BC, 959 BC, 948 BC, 942 BC, 931 BC, 920 BC, 914 BC, 903 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.