740 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	9th century BC – 8th century BC – 7th century BC
Decades:	770s BC  760s BC  750s BC  – 740s BC –  730s BC  720s BC  710s BC
Years:	743 BC 742 BC 741 BC – 740 BC – 739 BC 738 BC 737 BC

740 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	740 BC
Ab urbe condita	14
Ancient Egypt era	XXV dynasty, 13
- Pharaoh	Piye, 13
Ancient Greek era	10th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4011
Bengali calendar	−1332
Berber calendar	211
Buddhist calendar	−195
Burmese calendar	−1377
Byzantine calendar	4769–4770
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 1957 or 1897     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 1958 or 1898
Coptic calendar	−1023 – −1022
Discordian calendar	427
Ethiopian calendar	−747 – −746
Hebrew calendar	3021–3022
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−683 – −682
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2362–2363
Holocene calendar	9261
Iranian calendar	1361 BP – 1360 BP
Islamic calendar	1403 BH – 1402 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1594
Minguo calendar	2651 before ROC 民前2651年
Thai solar calendar	−197 – −196

Events

• Tiglath-Pileser III conquers the city of Arpad in Syria after two years of siege.
• Start of Ahaz's reign of Judah.

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