40 BC

Year 40 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday or Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Calvinus and Pollio.

Events
 Lucius Antonius surrenders to Octavian in the Siege of Perusia
 Octavian divorces Clodia Pulchra and marries Scribonia
 Sextus Pompey captures Sardinia
 Treaty of Brundisium: The Roman Republic is divided. Gaius Octavian takes control of the Western provinces. Mark Antony is given the Eastern provinces. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus controls  Hispania and  Africa. 
 Quintus Labienus occupies Cilicia and marches with an army into Anatolia.
 Parthians conquer Jerusalem. Hyrcanus II is removed from power.
 Herod the Great flees Jerusalem to Rome. There he is titled king of Judea by Mark Antony.

 Births 

 Cleopatra Selene (d. AD 6) and Alexander Helios (d. between 29 and 25 BC), the twins of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony

 Deaths 

 Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor dies, leaving Octavia Minor widowed. She will later marry Mark Antony by decree of the Roman Senate (b. 88 BC)
 Fulvia, wife of Publius Clodius Pulcher

Category:40s BC