40s

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC; 1st century; 2nd century;
Decades:	20s; 30s; 40s; 50s; 60s;
Years:	AD 40; AD 41; AD 42; AD 43; AD 44; AD 45; AD 46; AD 47; AD 48; AD 49;
Categories:	Births; Deaths; Establishments; Disestablishments;

Events

AD 40

By place

Roman Empire

Emperor Caligula is consul without colleague.
Caligula starts on a campaign to conquer Britain, which fails miserably. He declares himself victorious regardless.
Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.
Caligula reforms the principatus 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.
Approximate date of start of construction on the Pont du Gard aqueduct in Gallia Narbonensis.[1]

Europe

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

Parthia

Vardanes I becomes king of Parthia, opposed by his brother Gotarzes II.

Vietnam

The Vietnamese Trưng Sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guang Wu 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 Church of Alexandria as the first Patriarch.
An early Christian church is erected at Corinth (most probable date).
The traditional date of Saint James the Great meeting Our Lady of the Pillar in Spain

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Significant people

Gaius Caesar Germanicus/Caligula (AD 37–41).
Claudius, Roman Emperor (AD 41–54).
Agrippina the Younger, Empress Roman and Real Power behind the throne (AD 49–54)
Paul of Tarsus, Christian evangelist

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References

Fabre, Guilhem; Fiches, Jean-Luc; Paillet, Jean-Louis (1991). "Interdisciplinary Research on the Aqueduct of Nimes and the Pont du Gard". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 4: 63–88. doi:10.1017/S104775940001549X.

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[1] Fabre, Guilhem; Fiches, Jean-Luc; Paillet, Jean-Louis (1991). "Interdisciplinary Research on the Aqueduct of Nimes and the Pont du Gard". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 4: 63–88. doi:10.1017/S104775940001549X.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC 1st century 2nd century
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Categories:	Births Deaths Establishments Disestablishments