This article is about the year. For the number, see 40 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1804 – -1803 |
| Berber calendar | 990 |
| 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 | 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 | |
| Korean calendar | 2373 |
| Thai solar calendar | 583 |
Year 40 (XL) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
- The emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
- Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably. He declares himself victorious anyway.
- 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 deity statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse, Incitatus, a senator.
Europe
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.
By topic
Arts and sciences
- Philo teaches that all men are born free.
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).
- The Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover) is adopted by the Christians and renamed Easter.
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. (d. 62)
- Empress Ma of the Han Dynasty (d. 79)
Deaths
- January—Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy)
- Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
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