240

Year 240 (CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Venustus (or, less frequently, year 993 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 240 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:
240 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar240
CCXL
Ab urbe condita993
Assyrian calendar4990
Balinese saka calendar161–162
Bengali calendar−353
Berber calendar1190
Buddhist calendar784
Burmese calendar−398
Byzantine calendar5748–5749
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
2936 or 2876
     to 
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
2937 or 2877
Coptic calendar−44 – −43
Discordian calendar1406
Ethiopian calendar232–233
Hebrew calendar4000–4001
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat296–297
 - Shaka Samvat161–162
 - Kali Yuga3340–3341
Holocene calendar10240
Iranian calendar382 BP – 381 BP
Islamic calendar394 BH – 393 BH
Javanese calendar118–119
Julian calendar240
CCXL
Korean calendar2573
Minguo calendar1672 before ROC
民前1672年
Nanakshahi calendar−1228
Seleucid era551/552 AG
Thai solar calendar782–783
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
The ruins of Hatra (1988)

Events

Roman Empire

  • 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.

Persia

India

  • Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes ruler of the Gupta Empire (approximate date).

Religion

  • Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, proclaims himself a prophet at the court of Ardashir I. He preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Sassanid Empire.

Births

  • Lucian of Antioch, Syrian theologian and martyr (d. 312)
  • Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician (approximate date)
  • Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)

Deaths

  • Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
  • Herodian of Antioch, Roman historian and writer (b. 170)
  • Huang Quan (or Gongheng), Chinese general

References

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