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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1540 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1540
MDXL
Ab urbe condita2293
Armenian calendar989
ԹՎ ՋՁԹ
Assyrian calendar6290
Balinese saka calendar1461–1462
Bengali calendar947
Berber calendar2490
English Regnal year31 Hen. 8 – 32 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2084
Burmese calendar902
Byzantine calendar7048–7049
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4237 or 4030
    — to —
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4238 or 4031
Coptic calendar1256–1257
Discordian calendar2706
Ethiopian calendar1532–1533
Hebrew calendar5300–5301
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1596–1597
 - Shaka Samvat1461–1462
 - Kali Yuga4640–4641
Holocene calendar11540
Igbo calendar540–541
Iranian calendar918–919
Islamic calendar946–947
Japanese calendarTenbun 9
(天文9年)
Javanese calendar1458–1459
Julian calendar1540
MDXL
Korean calendar3873
Minguo calendar372 before ROC
民前372年
Nanakshahi calendar72
Thai solar calendar2082–2083
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1666 or 1285 or 513
    — to —
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1667 or 1286 or 514
October 1: Battle of Alborán

Year 1540 (MDXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

July–December

Date unknown


Births

John Sigismund Zápolya
Princess Cecilia of Sweden

Deaths

Angela Merici
Thomas Cromwell
Lebna Dengel

References

  1. ^ Drinkwater, John (1786). A history of the late siege of Gibraltar: With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. Printed by T. Spilsbury. p. 8. Retrieved October 27, 2012.
  2. ^ "Weather chronicler relates of medieval disasters". goDutch.com. October 7, 2003. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  3. ^ Johnson, Hugh (1989). Vintage: The Story of Wine. Simon and Schuster. pp. 284, 390. ISBN 0-671-68702-6.