Year 140 ( CXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the

Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...

. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hadrianus and Caesar (or, less frequently, year 893 ''

Ab urbe condita ''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...

''). The denomination 140 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

* Emperor Antoninus Augustus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Antoninus Pius recognizes the king of the

Quadi The Quadi were a Germanic * * * people who lived approximately in the area of modern Moravia in the time of the Roman Empire. The only surviving contemporary reports about the Germanic tribe are those of the Romans, whose empire had its bord ...

, who becomes an ally of Rome. * King Mithridates V dies; Vologases III claims the throne and extends his rule throughout the Parthian Empire. * The export of

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from Hispania Baetica to Rome peaks.

By topic

Religion

* Pope Pius I succeeds

Pope Hyginus Pope Hyginus was the bishop of Rome from 138 to his death in 142. Tradition holds that during his papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the clergy and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Hyginus instituted godparents ...

as the tenth pope of Rome according to tradition. * Marcion arrives in Rome, bringing Evangelikon and Apostolikon to the

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

community.

Art and science

* Ptolemy completes his

Almagest The ''Almagest'' is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy ( ). One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canoni ...

(approximate date).

Births

* Ballomar, leader of the Marcomanni (approximate date) * Zhang Jiao, leader of the

Yellow Turban Rebellion The Yellow Turban Rebellion, alternatively translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a List of peasant revolts, peasant revolt in China against the Eastern Han dynasty. The uprising broke out in 184 CE during the reign of Emperor Ling of ...

(d.

184 __NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) 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 Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab ...

)

Deaths

* Faustina the Elder, Roman empress (b.

100 AD __NOTOC__ AD 100 ( C) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was sometimes referred to as year 853 ''ab urbe condita'', i.e., 853 years since the founding of ...

) *

Gaius Bruttius Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus Gaius Bruttius Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus (68 – 140 AD) was an important Roman Empire, Roman Roman senate, senator of the reigns of the emperors Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. A friend of Pliny the Younger and Hadrian, he was twice con ...

, Roman politician (b. AD 68) *

Menelaus of Alexandria Menelaus of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Μενέλαος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ''Menelaos ho Alexandreus''; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a GreekEncyclopædia Britannica "Greek mathematician and astronomer who first conceived and defined a spheric ...

, Greek mathematician (b. AD 70) * Mithridates V, king of the Parthian Empire

References

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