40
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This article is about the year 40. For the number (and other uses), see 40 (number).
| 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 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 4790 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1804–-1803 |
| Bengali calendar | -553 |
| Berber calendar | 990 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 584 |
| Burmese calendar | -598 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5548–5549 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年十一月廿八日 (2676/2736-11-28) — to —
庚子年十一月初九日(2677/2737-11-9) |
| Coptic calendar | -244–-243 |
| 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 |
| Iranian calendar | 582 BP – 581 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 600 BH – 599 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| 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 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 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.
[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).
[edit] Births
- July 13 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
- Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
- Frontinus, Roman general and military author
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
- Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina (d. 62)
- Empress Ma of the Han Dynasty (d. 79)
[edit] Deaths
- January – Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
