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| Gregorian calendar | 540 DXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 1293 |
| Assyrian calendar | 5290 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 461–462 |
| Bengali calendar | −53 |
| Berber calendar | 1490 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1084 |
| Burmese calendar | −98 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6048–6049 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3236 or 3176 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3237 or 3177 |
| 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 |
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540 (DXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 540th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 540th year of the 1st millennium, the 40th year of the 6th century, and the 1st year of the 540s decade. As of the start of 540, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
- Emperor Kimmei, reign of 29th emperor of Japan starts (540-571)[1]
- Vitiges of the Ostrogoths surrendered to the Byzantine army.[2]
Births
- Pope Gregory I (approximate date)[3]
References
- ↑ McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966). Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
- ↑ Wolfram, Herwig. (1990). History of the Goths, p. 349.
- ↑ "Pope St. Gregory ('the Great')," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2012-10-15.