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40 BC

 
Sci & Tech Chronology: In the year 40 bce
 

Communication

During the fighting over control of Alexandria in the wake of the assassination of Julius Caesar, either part of the Library at Alexandria is burned or else the books that Cleopatra had given to Caesar in 48 bce are lost. Marc Antony [b. Rome, c. 83 bce, d. 30 bce], now allied with Cleopatra, donates the 200,000-roll library from Pergamum (Bergama, Turkey) to Alexandria to replace the lost books. See also 48 bce Communication; 269 ce Communication.

Construction

Lucius Cocceius Auctus designs and builds two tunnels to ease traffic bottlenecks around Naples, each about 3 m (10 ft) wide and varying in height from 2/5 m (9 ft) to 21 m (70 ft). According to a report by Seneca, they were dark and dusty. See also 522 bce Construction; 41 ce Construction.

Medicine & health

The Ayurveda is compiled from verbal sources that may date from hundreds of years earlier. It becomes the basic Hindu medical treatise and is still popular as an alternative medical text today. See also 170 ce Medicine & health.


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Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century
Decades: 70s BC  60s BC  50s BC  - 40s BC -  30s BC  20s BC  10s BC
Years: 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC - 40 BC - 39 BC 38 BC 37 BC
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40 BC in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 40 BC
Ab urbe condita 714
Armenian calendar N/A
Bahá'í calendar -1883 – -1882
Berber calendar 911
Buddhist calendar 505
Burmese calendar -677
Byzantine calendar 5469 – 5470
Chinese calendar 庚辰
(2597/2657)
— to —
辛巳
(2598/2658)
Coptic calendar -323 – -322
Ethiopian calendar -47 – -46
Hebrew calendar 3721 – 3722
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 16 – 17
 - Shaka Samvat N/A
 - Kali Yuga 3062 – 3063
Holocene calendar 9961
Iranian calendar 661 BP – 660 BP
Islamic calendar 681 BH – 680 BH
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 2294
Thai solar calendar 504

Year 40 BC was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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  • Athenodorus a philosopher, encounters a ghost in Athens. This popular story is one of the first of the poltergeist stories in history.

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