Is there Any facts about the number 40?

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This article is about the year 40. For the number 40, see 40 (number).

Millennium:1st millenniumCenturies:1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd centuryDecades:10s 20s 30s - 40s - 50s 60s 70sYears:37 38 39 - 40 - 41 42 43

40 by topicv • d • e

PoliticsState leaders - Sovereign statesBirth and death categoriesBirths - DeathsEstablishment and disestablishment categoriesEstablishments - Disestablishments40 in other calendarsGregorian calendar40

XLAb urbe condita793Armenian calendarN/ABahá'í calendar-1804 - -1803Bengali calendar-553Berber calendar990Buddhist calendar584Burmese calendar-598Byzantine calendar5548 - 5549Chinese 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 - -243Ethiopian calendar32 - 33Hebrew calendar3800 - 3801Hindu calendars - Bikram Samwat96 - 97 - Shaka SamvatN/A - Kali Yuga3141 - 3142Holocene calendar10040Iranian calendar582 BP - 581 BPIslamic calendar600 BH - 599 BHJapanese calendarKorean calendar2373Thai solar calendar583v • d • e

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

EventsBy placeRoman 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

• The Germanic Quadi tribe begin settling in present-day Moravia and Slovakia.

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 topicArts 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)