40
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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 |
This article is about the year 40. For other uses, see 40 (number).
| 40 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 40 XL |
| Ab urbe condita | 793 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1804 – -1803 |
| Buddhist calendar | 584 |
| Chinese calendar | 2676/2736-11-28 (己亥年十一月廿八日) — to —
2677/2737-11-9(庚子年十一月初九日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 32 – 33 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3800 – 3801 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 95 – 96 |
| - 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 | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 700 (皇紀700年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 10040 |
| Julian calendar | 85 |
| Korean calendar | 2373 |
| Thai solar calendar | 583 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
- Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably.
- Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
- Caligula transforms the principate into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek statues be replaced by his. Lastly, he makes his horse 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.
- Early Christian church erected at Corinth (most probable date).
- The Jewish festival of Pesach is adopted by the Christians and renamed Easter.
[edit] Births
- Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
- Frontinus, Roman general and military author
- Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
- July 13 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain
- Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius and Messalina.
- Empress Ma of the Han Dynasty
[edit] Deaths
- January - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
- Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher
