540
| Millennium: | 1st millennium | 
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century | 
| Decades: | 510s 520s 530s – 540s – 550s 560s 570s | 
| Years: | 537 538 539 – 540 – 541 542 543 | 
Events
    
- Emperor Kimmei, reign of 29th emperor of Japan starts (540-571)[1]
- Vitiges of the Ostrogoths surrendered to the Byzantine army.[2]
Births
    
- Pope Gregory I (approximate date)[3]
References
    
- McCullough, Helen Craig. (1966). Yoshitsune: a fifteenth-century Japanese chronicle, p. 322.
- Wolfram, Herwig. (1990). History of the Goths, p. 349.
- "Pope St. Gregory ('the Great')," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2012-10-15.
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