540

Year 540 (DXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1293 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 540 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 537
  • 538
  • 539
  • 540
  • 541
  • 542
  • 543
540 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar540
DXL
Ab urbe condita1293
Assyrian calendar5290
Balinese saka calendar461–462
Bengali calendar−53
Berber calendar1490
Buddhist calendar1084
Burmese calendar−98
Byzantine calendar6048–6049
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
3236 or 3176
     to 
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
3237 or 3177
Coptic calendar256–257
Discordian calendar1706
Ethiopian calendar532–533
Hebrew calendar4300–4301
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat596–597
 - Shaka Samvat461–462
 - Kali Yuga3640–3641
Holocene calendar10540
Iranian calendar82 BP – 81 BP
Islamic calendar85 BH – 84 BH
Javanese calendar427–428
Julian calendar540
DXL
Korean calendar2873
Minguo calendar1372 before ROC
民前1372年
Nanakshahi calendar−928
Seleucid era851/852 AG
Thai solar calendar1082–1083
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
666 or 285 or −487
     to 
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
667 or 286 or −486
Britain in the time of Gildas (c. 540)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

Persia

  • King Khosrau I, jealous of Justinian's victories in the West, receives an embassy from the Ostrogoths at Ctesiphon, urging him to act before the Byzantines become too powerful.
  • Khosrau I breaks the Eternal Peace after eight years. The Persian army marches up the River Euphrates, and follows a path to extract tributes from towns along the way to Antioch.
  • Khosrau I captures Antioch after a fierce siege; he systematically plunders the city to the extent that marble statues and mosaics are transported to Persia.[2]

Africa

Asia

By topic

Religion

World

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths (University of California Press), 1990
  2. Rome at War (p. 56). Michael Whitby, 2002. ISBN 1-84176-359-4
  3. Graham, 2002 & p. 44
  4. "List of Rulers of Korea". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  5. "In 1986 I discovered that a series of Irish oaks exhibited their narrowest rings in the immediate vicinity of." 080205 aryabhata.de
  6. Baillie, M.G.L. (2007). Tree-Rings Indicate Global Environmental Downturns that could have been Caused by Comet Debris, Chap. 5 in Bobrowsky, Peter T. and Hans Rickman (eds.), Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-540-32709-6, pp. 105–122.
  7. Highfield, Roger; Robert Uhlig and David Derbyshire (September 9, 2000). "Comet caused Dark Ages, says tree ring expert". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  8. "El Chichon eruption implicated in Mayan upheaval - BBC News". BBC News. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  9. GibbonsNov. 15, Ann; 2018; Pm, 2:00 (November 15, 2018). "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive'". Science | AAAS. Retrieved June 19, 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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