40 - Definition and Overview

For alternate uses, see Number 40.

Events

• Christianity comes to Egypt as a church is founded in Alexandria. Mark the Evangelist founds the Coptic Orthodox Church as the first pope.
• Caligula embarks on a campaign to conquer Britain.
• German tribe Quadi begin settling in today Moravia and Slovakia.
• Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.

Births

• Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
• Frontinus, Roman general and military author
• Dio Chrysostom, Greek philosopher and historian
• July 13 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain

Deaths

• January - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, husband of Agrippina the younger, brother-in-law of Caligula (dropsy).
• Ptolemy of Mauretania (executed by Caligula)