540

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540 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 540
DXL
Ab urbe condita 1293
Assyrian calendar 5290
Balinese saka calendar 461–462
Bengali calendar −54 – −53
Berber calendar 1490
Buddhist calendar 1084
Burmese calendar −98
Byzantine calendar 6048–6049
Chinese calendar 己未年 (Earth  Goat)
3237 or 3030
     to 
庚申年 (Metal  Monkey)
3238 or 3031
Coptic calendar 256–257
Discordian calendar 1706
Ethiopian calendar 532–533
Hebrew calendar 4300–4301
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 596–597
 - Shaka Samvat 461–462
 - Kali Yuga 3640–3641
Holocene calendar 10540
Iranian calendar 82 BP – 81 BP
Islamic calendar 85 BH – 84 BH
Javanese calendar 427–428
Julian calendar 540
DXL
Korean calendar 2873
Minguo calendar 1372 before ROC
民前1372年
Nanakshahi calendar −928
Seleucid era 851/852 AG
Thai solar calendar 1082–1083
Tibetan calendar ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Earth-Sheep)
666 or 285 or −487
     to 
ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Monkey)
667 or 286 or −486
Britain in the time of Gildas (c. 540) Britain.circa.540.jpg
Britain in the time of Gildas (c. 540)

Year 540 ( DXL ) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, 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.

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Byzantine Empire

Europe

Persia

  • King Khosrow I breaks the "Eternal Peace" treaty with the Byzantine Empire after eight years. Responding to an embassy from the Ostrogoths urging action against Emperor Justinian I's expanding power, he leads the Persian army up the River Euphrates. Extracting tributes from towns along the way, Khosrau I besieges and captures Antioch. He plunders the city extensively, transporting valuable artworks, including marble statues and mosaics, back to Persia. [2]

Africa

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Religion

World

Births

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References

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  7. Highfield, Roger; Uhlig, Robert; Derbyshire, David (September 9, 2000). "Comet caused Dark Ages, says tree ring expert". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
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