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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s 1360s
Years:	1337 1338 1339 1340 1341 1342 1343
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1340 by topic
Leaders
Political entities State leaders Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1340 in poetry
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1340 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 1340
MCCCXL

Ab urbe condita 2093

Armenian calendar 789
ԹՎ ՉՁԹ

Assyrian calendar 6090

Balinese saka calendar 1261–1262

Bengali calendar 746–747

Berber calendar 2290

English Regnal year 13 Edw. 3 – 14 Edw. 3

Buddhist calendar 1884

Burmese calendar 702

Byzantine calendar 6848–6849

Chinese calendar 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4037 or 3830
— to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4038 or 3831

Coptic calendar 1056–1057

Discordian calendar 2506

Ethiopian calendar 1332–1333

Hebrew calendar 5100–5101

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1396–1397

- Shaka Samvat 1261–1262

- Kali Yuga 4440–4441

Holocene calendar 11340

Igbo calendar 340–341

Iranian calendar 718–719

Islamic calendar 740–741

Japanese calendar Ryakuō 3
(暦応3年)

Javanese calendar 1252–1253

Julian calendar 1340
MCCCXL

Korean calendar 3673

Minguo calendar 572 before ROC
民前572年

Nanakshahi calendar −128

Thai solar calendar 1882–1883

Tibetan calendar 阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1466 or 1085 or 313
— to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1467 or 1086 or 314

Year 1340 (MCCCXL ) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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January 26 – King Edward III of England declares himself King of France at Ghent, Flanders.
March 6 – Bohemian Crusade: The Church authorizes a military expedition against heretics.
April 8 – Marinid galleys, under the command of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi, rout the Castellan fleet, off the coast of Algeciras.
April–July – Trapezuntine Civil War: An abortive uprising occurs against Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond, the first of a number of coups, revolts, and succession disputes.
June 7 – Rotterdam is officially declared a city.
June 24
- Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The English fleet, under the command of Edward III of England, battles the French fleet, under that of Admiral Hugues Quiéret and treasurer Nicolas Béhuchet, assisted by Genoese mercenary galleys under Egidio Bocanegra, on the Low Countries coast. The French fleet is virtually destroyed, and both of its commanders are killed.
- Valdemar IV of Denmark, son of deceased King Christopher II, is elected to the throne, following 8 years of interregnum.
July 26 – Hundred Years' War – Battle of Saint-Omer: The French defeat the English.
September 25 – Hundred Years' War: The temporary Truce of Espléchin is signed between England and France.^[1]
October 30 – Battle of Río Salado in Spain: The kings of Castile and Portugal defeat the Nasrid ruler of Granada and his Moroccan allies.

Date unknown

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Europe has about 74 million inhabitants.
An epidemic in northern Italy is recorded by Augustine of Trent, in his Epistola astrologica.
The Monarchy of Japan reaches its 2,000 year anniversary (according to traditional starting dates).

Births

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March 5 – Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
March 6 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
August – Haakon VI, king of Norway 1355–1380 and of Sweden 1362–1364 (d. 1380)
October – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (d. 1384)
November 30 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
date unknown
- Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy (d. 1397)
- John of Nepomuk, saint of Bohemia (d. 1393)
- Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician (d. 1400)
probable
- Margaret Drummond, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1375)^[2]
- Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot (d. 1382)

Deaths

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March 31 – Ivan I of Moscow (b. 1288)
April 5 – William Melton, English archbishop
April 6 – Emperor Basil Megas Komnenos of Trebizond
April 7 – Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (b. 1308)
December 2 – Geoffrey le Scrope, Chief Justice of King Edward III of England
December 4 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
December 20 – John I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)
date unknown – Simonida, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1294)

References

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^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 102–104. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "5 forgotten queens and princesses of Scotland". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved May 4, 2022.

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