This article is about the year 540. For the martial arts kick, see 540 kick.
| Centuries: | 5th century · 6th century · 7th century |
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s |
| Years: | 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 |
| 540 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 540 DXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1293 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1304 – -1303 |
| Bengali calendar | -53 |
| Berber calendar | 1490 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1084 |
| Burmese calendar | -98 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6048 – 6049 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十二月初七日 (3176/3236-12-7) — to —
庚申年十一月十八日(3177/3237-11-18) |
| Coptic calendar | 256 – 257 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 532 – 533 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4300 – 4301 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 595 – 596 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 462 – 463 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3641 – 3642 |
| Holocene calendar | 10540 |
| Iranian calendar | 82 BP – 81 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 85 BH – 84 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2873 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1083 |
The folowing events are associated with the year 540 AD:
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- General Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna.
- The Sassanids attack Dara and capture Antioch.
- The Huns and Bulgars raid Greece.
Europe
- Ostrogoth king Witiges is succeeded by Ildibad.
- High King Custennin ap Cado of Britain is deposed and returns to Dumnonia.
By topic
Religion
- Pope Vigilius rejects Monophysitism in letters to Emperor Justinian I and Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople.
- The former Roman senator Cassiodorus establishes a monastery, the Vivarium, on his estate in Italy. He enlists highly educated and sophisticated men to copy both sacred and secular manuscripts, intending this to be their sole occupation (approximate date).
- Benedict of Nursia writes his monastic laws.
Births
- Pope Gregory I (approximate date)
- Galswintha, wife of Chilperic I
- Myrddin Wyllt, later wild man of the woods and possible source for Merlin (approximate date)
Deaths
- Dionysius Exiguus (approximate date)
- Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths
- Empress Yifu
- Empress Yujiulü
Events
References
- ^ "In 1986 I discovered that a series of Irish oaks exhibited their narrowest rings in the immediate vicinity of..". http://www.aryabhata.de/illig/baillie2.doc. 080205 aryabhata.de
- ^ Baillie, M.G.L. (2007). Tree-Rings Indicate Global Environmental Downturns that could have been Caused by Comet Debris, Chap. 5 in Bobrowsky, Peter T. and Hans Rickman (eds.), Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN: 3-540-32709-6, pp. 105–122.
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