There are no recorded events this year. See an overview of when world history happened.
Thutmosis III celebrated their birthday this year.
The year 1440 BC was a common year starting on a Wednesday, just like 1532 BC, 1526 BC, 1515 BC, 1504 BC, 1498 BC, 1487 BC, 1476 BC, 1470 BC, 1459 BC, 1448 BC in the century before it and 1431 BC, 1420 BC, 1414 BC, 1403 BC, 1392 BC, 1386 BC, 1375 BC, 1364 BC, 1358 BC, 1347 BC in the next.
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icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.