40

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

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. He also appoints his horse 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 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.
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

Deaths

January — Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy)
Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)

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