540 (DXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 540th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 540th year of the 1st millennium, the 40th year of the 6th century, and the 1st year of the 540s decade. As of the start of 540, the Gregorian calendar was 2 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 5th century6th century7th century
Decades: 510s  520s  530s  – 540s –  550s  560s  570s
Years: 537 538 539540541 542 543
540 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar540
DXL
Ab urbe condita1293
Assyrian calendar5290
Balinese saka calendar461–462
Bengali calendar−53
Berber calendar1490
Buddhist calendar1084
Burmese calendar−98
Byzantine calendar6048–6049
Chinese calendar己未(Earth Goat)
3236 or 3176
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
3237 or 3177
Coptic calendar256–257
Discordian calendar1706
Ethiopian calendar532–533
Hebrew calendar4300–4301
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat596–597
 - Shaka Samvat461–462
 - Kali Yuga3640–3641
Holocene calendar10540
Iranian calendar82 BP – 81 BP
Islamic calendar85 BH – 84 BH
Javanese calendar427–428
Julian calendar540
DXL
Korean calendar2873
Minguo calendar1372 before ROC
民前1372年
Nanakshahi calendar−928
Seleucid era851/852 AG
Thai solar calendar1082–1083
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
666 or 285 or −487
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
667 or 286 or −486

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References

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  1. McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966). Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
  2. Wolfram, Herwig. (1990). History of the Goths, p. 349.
  3. "Pope St. Gregory ('the Great')," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2012-10-15.