40

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

Contents

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Europe

Asia

By topic

Arts and sciences

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By place

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.

Europe

★ German tribe Quadi begin settling in today 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 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.

★ Early Christian church 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

Deaths

★ January — Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).

★ Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)