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| Gregorian calendar | 240 CCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 993 |
| Assyrian calendar | 4990 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 161–162 |
| Bengali calendar | −353 |
| Berber calendar | 1190 |
| Buddhist calendar | 784 |
| Burmese calendar | −398 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5748–5749 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2936 or 2876 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2937 or 2877 |
| Coptic calendar | −44 – −43 |
| Discordian calendar | 1406 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 232–233 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4000–4001 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 296–297 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 161–162 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3340–3341 |
| Holocene calendar | 10240 |
| Iranian calendar | 382 BP – 381 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 394 BH – 393 BH |
| Javanese calendar | 118–119 |
| Julian calendar | 240 CCXL |
| Korean calendar | 2573 |
| Minguo calendar | 1672 before ROC 民前1672年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −1228 |
| Seleucid era | 551/552 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 782–783 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 366 or −15 or −787 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 367 or −14 or −786 |
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Year 240 (CCXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
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.
Asia
- Maharaja Sri-Gupta becomes Emperor of Gupta.
- Ardashir I, Sassanid king of Persia, destroys Hatra.
- Shapur I becomes co-emperor with his father Ardashir I
- The Kushan Empire falls.
By topic
Religion
- At the court of Ardashir I, Mani, a young mystic of Ctesiphon, calls himself a prophet and preaches his doctrine, Manichaeism, throughout the Persian Empire.
Births
- Lactantius, Christian writer (d. 320) (approximate date)
- Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
- Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire (d. 274)
Deaths
- Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher (approximate date)
- Huang Quan, general of the Kingdom of Shu
- King Midang, king of the Qiang tribe
- Zhou Fang, general of the Kingdom of Wu