1040
| Years | 
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| Millennium | 
| 2nd millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 1040 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
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| Birth and death categories | 
| Births – Deaths | 
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | 
| Establishments – Disestablishments | 
| Gregorian calendar | 1040 MXL | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1793 | 
| Armenian calendar | 489 ԹՎ ՆՁԹ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5790 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 961–962 | 
| Bengali calendar | 446–447 | 
| Berber calendar | 1990 | 
| English Regnal year | N/A | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1584 | 
| Burmese calendar | 402 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6548–6549 | 
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3737 or 3530 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3738 or 3531 | 
| Coptic calendar | 756–757 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2206 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1032–1033 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4800–4801 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1096–1097 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 961–962 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4140–4141 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11040 | 
| Igbo calendar | 40–41 | 
| Iranian calendar | 418–419 | 
| Islamic calendar | 431–432 | 
| Japanese calendar | Chōryaku 4 / Chōkyū 1 (長久元年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 943–944 | 
| Julian calendar | 1040 MXL | 
| Korean calendar | 3373 | 
| Minguo calendar | 872 before ROC 民前872年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −428 | 
| Seleucid era | 1351/1352 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1582–1583 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1166 or 785 or 13 — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1167 or 786 or 14 | 
Year 1040 (MXL) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.