- 40
Year 40 was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .__NOTOC__Events
By place
Roman Empire
* The emperor
Caligula isconsul without colleague.
* Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain, and fails miserably.
*Noricum andMauretania are incorporated into theRoman Empire .
* Caligula transforms the principate into a HellenisticAutocracy . He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse a senator.Europe
* The Germanic
Quadi tribe begin settling in present-dayMoravia andSlovakia .Asia
* Vardanes I becomes king of
Parthia , opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.
* TheVietnam eseTrung sisters rebel against the rule of the ChineseEmperor Guangwu of Han .By topic
Arts and sciences
*
Philo teaches that all men are born free.Religion
*
Christianity comes toEgypt as a church is founded inAlexandria .Mark the Evangelist founds theCoptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
* An early Christian church is erected atCorinth (most probable date).
* The Jewish festival ofPesach (Passover) is adopted by the Christians and renamedEaster .Births
*
Pedanius Dioscorides , Greekphysician
*Frontinus , Roman general and military author
*Dio Chrysostom , Greek philosopher andhistorian
*July 13 —Gnaeus Julius Agricola , Roman governor of Britain
*Claudia Octavia , daughter ofClaudius and Messalina. (d.62 )
* Empress Ma of theHan Dynasty (d.79 )Deaths
* January — Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of
Agrippina the younger , brother-in-law ofCaligula (dropsy )
*Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)
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