240
year
Year 240 (CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 2nd century – 3rd century – 4th century |
Decades: | 210s 220s 230s – 240s – 250s 260s 270s |
Years: | 237 238 239 – 240 – 241 242 243 |
Gregorian calendar | 240 CCXL |
Ab urbe condita | 993 |
Assyrian calendar | 4990 |
Balinese saka calendar | 161–162 |
Bengali calendar | −353 |
Berber calendar | 1190 |
Buddhist calendar | 784 |
Burmese calendar | −398 |
Byzantine calendar | 5748–5749 |
Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2936 or 2876 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2937 or 2877 |
Coptic calendar | −44 – −43 |
Discordian calendar | 1406 |
Ethiopian calendar | 232–233 |
Hebrew calendar | 4000–4001 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 296–297 |
- Shaka Samvat | 161–162 |
- Kali Yuga | 3340–3341 |
Holocene calendar | 10240 |
Iranian calendar | 382 BP – 381 BP |
Islamic calendar | 394 BH – 393 BH |
Javanese calendar | 118–119 |
Julian calendar | 240 CCXL |
Korean calendar | 2573 |
Minguo calendar | 1672 before ROC 民前1672年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −1228 |
Seleucid era | 551/552 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 782–783 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 366 or −15 or −787 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 367 or −14 or −786 |
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Events
changeBy place
changeRoman Empire
change- The Roman Empire is threatened on several fronts at the same time. Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier.
Asia
change- Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes Emperor of Gupta.
- Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia, destroys Hatra.
- Shapur I becomes co-emperor with his father Ardashir I
- The Kushan Empire falls.
By topic
changeReligion
change- At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, calls himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.
Births
change- Lactantius, Christian writer (d. 320) (approximate date)
- Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
- Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)
Deaths
change- Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
- Huang Quan, general of the Kingdom of Shu
- King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe
- Zhou Fang, general of the Kingdom of Wu