1940

Millennium:	2nt millennium
Centuries:	19t century – 20t century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1937 1938 1939 – 1940 – 1941 1942 1943

Year 1940 (MCMXL in Roman numerals) wis a leap year stairtin on Monanday o the Gregorian calendar.

Events

20 Mey – The Nazi concentration camp an extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the lairgest o the German concentration camps, appens in occupied Poland, near the toun o Oświęcim. Frae nou till Januar 1945, aroond 1.1 million fowk will be killt here.
10 Julie – WWII: The Battle o Breetain begins.
16 October – Nazi Govrenor-General Hans Frank establishes the Warsaw Ghetto.