40
This article is about the year 40. For the number, see 40 (number). For other uses, see 40 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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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 |
| 40 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 40 XL |
| Ab urbe condita | 793 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4790 |
| Bengali calendar | −553 |
| Berber calendar | 990 |
| Buddhist calendar | 584 |
| Burmese calendar | −598 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5548–5549 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 2736 or 2676 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 2737 or 2677 |
| Coptic calendar | −244 – −243 |
| Discordian calendar | 1206 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 32–33 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3800–3801 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 96–97 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3141–3142 |
| Holocene calendar | 10040 |
| Igbo calendar | −960 – −959 |
| Iranian calendar | 582 BP – 581 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 600 BH – 599 BH |
| Julian calendar | 40 XL |
| Korean calendar | 2373 |
| Minguo calendar | 1872 before ROC 民前1872年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 583 |
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Year 40 (XL) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 793 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 40 for this year has been used since the Early Middle Ages, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
- Caligula starts on a campaign to conquer Britain, which fails miserably. He declares himself victorious regardless.
- Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
- Caligula reforms the principatus into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek deity statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse, Incitatus, a senator.
- Approximate date of start of construction on the Pont du Gard aqueduct in Gallia Narbonensis.[1]
Europe
Asia
- Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.
- The Vietnamese Trưng Sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guangwu of Han.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- Philo teaches that all men are born free.
Religion
- Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Church as the first Patriarch.
- An early Christian church is erected at Corinth (most probable date).
Births
- March 1 – Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
- July 13 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain (d. 93 AD)
- Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician (approximate date) (d. 90 AD)
- Frontinus, Roman general and military author (approximate date) (d. 103)
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian (approximate date) d. c. 120)
- Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina (d. 62)
- Empress Ma of the Han dynasty (d. 79)
Deaths
- January – Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the Younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy) (b. 17 BC)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula) (b. 1 BC)
References
- ↑ Fabre, Guilhem; Fiches, Jean-Luc; Paillet, Jean-Louis (1991). "Interdisciplinary Research on the Aqueduct of Nimes and the Pont du Gard". Journal of Roman Archaeology 4: 63–88.