140

This article is about the year 140 ; The German railway locomotive of the same name is under class 140 . For the type of airliner see Antonov An-140 .

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Emperor Antoninus Pius and Mark Aurel are Roman consuls and lead a campaign against the Picts .
140 in other calendars
Ethiopian calendar	132/133
Buddhist calendar	683/684 (southern Buddhism); 682/683 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	47th (48th) cycle , year of the metal dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯)
Greek calendar	3rd / 4th Year of the 229th Olympiad
Jewish calendar	3900/01 (August 30/31)
Roman calendar	from urbe condita DCCCXCIII (893)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 450/451 (turn of the year April); Syria: 451/452 (New Year October)
Spanish era	178
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	196/197 (turn of the year April)

Events

• Emperor Antoninus Pius and the later Emperor Mark Aurel are Roman consuls .
• Roman troops take massive action against the Picts and reach the line of the Antonine Wall .
• First mention of the settlement Eblana in the area of ​​today's Dublin by Claudius Ptolemy .
• around 140: Huvischka becomes Great King of the Kushan Empire .

Born

• around 140: Donatus , Roman military man and saint († around 180 )

Died

• October 24th : Faustina the Elder , Roman Empress (* 105 )
• Gaius Bruttius Praesens , Roman politician
• around 140: Menelaus , mathematician and astronomer
• around 140: Julianus von Sora , Christian martyr

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