1340
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1310s 1320s 1330s – 1340s – 1350s 1360s 1370s |
| Years: | 1337 1338 1339 – 1340 – 1341 1342 1343 |
| 1340 by topic | |
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| 1340 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1340 MCCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 2093 |
| Armenian calendar | 789 ԹՎ ՉՁԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6090 |
| Bengali calendar | 747 |
| Berber calendar | 2290 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Edw. 3 – 14 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1884 |
| Burmese calendar | 702 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6848–6849 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4036 or 3976 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4037 or 3977 |
| Coptic calendar | 1056–1057 |
| Discordian calendar | 2506 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1332–1333 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5100–5101 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1396–1397 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1262–1263 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4441–4442 |
| Holocene calendar | 11340 |
| Igbo calendar | 340–341 |
| Iranian calendar | 718–719 |
| Islamic calendar | 740–741 |
| Japanese calendar | Ryakuō 3 (暦応３年) |
| Julian calendar | 1340 MCCCXL |
| Korean calendar | 3673 |
| Minguo calendar | 572 before ROC 民前572年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1882–1883 |
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Year 1340 (MCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 26 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
- April 8 – The Merinid galleys under the command of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi rout the Castellan fleet off the coast of Algesiras.
- June 7 – Rotterdam is officially declared a city.
- June 24
- The Battle of Sluys is fought between the naval fleets of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France. The former is under the command of Edward III of England and the latter under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicholas Béhuchet assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra. The French fleet is virtually destroyed and both of its commanders are killed.
- Valdemar IV of Denmark, son of deceased King Christopher II, is elected to the throne following 8 years of interregnum.
- September 25 – Hundred Years' War: Temporary Truce of Espléchin signed between England and France.[1]
- October 30 – At the Battle of Río Salado in Spain, the kings of Castile and Portugal defeat the Nasrid ruler of Granada and his Moroccan allies.
- Europe has about 74 million inhabitants.
Births
- March 5 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
- March 6 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
- August – Haakon VI, king of Norway 1355–1380 and of Sweden 1362–1364 (d. 1380)
- October – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (d. 1384)
- November 30 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
- date unknown
- Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (d. 1397)
- John of Nepomuk, saint of Bohemia (d. 1393)
- Narayana Pandit, mathematician (d. 1400)
- probable
- Margaret Drummond, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1375)
- Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (d. 1382)
Deaths
- March 31 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)
- April 5 – William Melton, English archbishop
- April 6 – Emperor Basil Megas Komnenos of Trebizond
- April 7 – Boleslaus George II of Halych (b. 1308), duke of Masovia
- December 2 – Geoffrey le Scrope, Chief Justice of King Edward III of England
- December 4 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
- December 20 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)
- date unknown – Simonida, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1294)