40
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Centuries: | 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century |
Decades: | 10s 20s 30s - 40s - 50s 60s 70s |
Years: | 37 38 39 - 40 - 41 42 43 |
This article is about the year 40. For other uses, see 40 (number).
40 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders - Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
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Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
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Gregorian calendar | 40 XL |
Ab urbe condita | 793 |
Armenian calendar | N/A |
Bahá'í calendar | -1804 – -1803 |
Berber calendar | 990 |
Buddhist calendar | 584 |
Burmese calendar | -598 |
Chinese calendar | 2676/2736-11-28 (己亥年十一月廿八日) — to —
2677/2737-11-9(庚子年十一月初九日) |
Coptic calendar | -244 – -243 |
Ethiopian calendar | 32 – 33 |
Hebrew calendar | 3800 – 3801 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 95 – 96 |
- Shaka Samvat | N/A |
- Kali Yuga | 3141 – 3142 |
Holocene calendar | 10040 |
Iranian calendar | 582 BP – 581 BP |
Islamic calendar | 600 BH – 599 BH |
Japanese calendar | |
Korean calendar | 2373 |
Thai solar calendar | 583 |
Year 40 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
- Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably.
- Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
- Caligula transforms the principate into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse a senator.
[edit] Europe
[edit] Asia
- Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.
- The Vietnamese Trung sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guangwu of Han.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Arts and sciences
- Philo teaches that all men are born free.
[edit] Religion
- Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
- An early Christian church is erected at Corinth (most probable date).
- The Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover) is adopted by the Christians and renamed Easter.
[edit] Births
- Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
- Frontinus, Roman general and military author
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
- July 13 — Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
- Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina. (d. 62)
- Empress Ma of the Han Dynasty
[edit] Deaths
- January — Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)