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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 |
Gregorian calendar | AD 40 XL |
Ab urbe condita | 793 |
Assyrian calendar | 4790 |
Balinese saka calendar | N/A |
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 | 3140–3141 |
Holocene calendar | 10040 |
Iranian calendar | 582 BP – 581 BP |
Islamic calendar | 600 BH – 599 BH |
Javanese calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | AD 40 XL |
Korean calendar | 2373 |
Minguo calendar | 1872 before ROC 民前1872年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1428 |
Seleucid era | 351/352 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 582–583 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 166 or −215 or −987 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 167 or −214 or −986 |
Year 40 (XL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus without colleague.
Events
[change | change source]Roman Empire
[change | change source]- The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
- Caligula starts a campaign to conquer Britain. It fails miserably. He names himself the winner.
- Noricum and Mauretania are added 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. According to legend, this is when he appointed his horse, Incitatus, a senator.
- Approximate date of start of construction on the Pont du Gard aqueduct in Gallia Narbonensis.
- Philo teaches that all men are born free.
- An early Christian church is erected at Corinth (most probable date).
Europe
[change | change source]Asia
[change | change source]- Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia. He was opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.
- The Vietnamese Trung sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guangwu of Han.
Africa
[change | change source]- Christianity comes to Egypt. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
Births
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- January – Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (b. 17 BC)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (b. 1 BC)