240
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This article is about the year 240. For the number (and other uses), see 240 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
| Decades: | 210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s |
| Years: | 237 238 239 – 240 – 241 242 243 |
| 240 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 240 CCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 993 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4990 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1604–-1603 |
| Bengali calendar | -353 |
| Berber calendar | 1190 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 784 |
| Burmese calendar | -398 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5748–5749 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十二月二十日 (2876/2936-12-20) — to —
庚申年十二月初一日(2877/2937-12-1) |
| Coptic calendar | -44–-43 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 232–233 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4000–4001 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 296–297 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 162–163 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3341–3342 |
| Holocene calendar | 10240 |
| Iranian calendar | 382 BP – 381 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 394 BH – 393 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2573 |
| Minguo calendar | 1672 before ROC 民前1672年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 783 |
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Year 240 (CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Venustus (or, less frequently, year 993 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 240 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- The Roman Empire is threatned on several fronts at the same time. Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier.
[edit] Asia
- Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes Emperor of Gupta.
- Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia, destroys Hatra.
- Shapur I becomes co-emperor with his father Ardashir I
- The Kushan Empire falls.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, proclaims himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.
[edit] Births
- Lactantius, Christian writer (d. 320) (approximate date)
- Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
- Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)
[edit] Deaths
- Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
- Huang Quan, general of the Kingdom of Shu
- King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe
- Zhou Fang, general of the Kingdom of Wu
