Events in 1940

152 notable events from 1940. Page 1 of 2.

• Katyn massacre
  Apr 1940–May 1940 · Russian Federation
• Battle of Britain
  Jul 10, 1940–Oct 31, 1940 · United Kingdom
• The Blitz
  Sep 7, 1940–May 21, 1941 · United Kingdom
• Warsaw Ghetto
  Oct 12, 1940–May 1943 · Poland
• Assassination of Leon Trotsky
  Aug 20, 1940 · Mexico
• Łódź Ghetto
  Feb 8, 1940–Aug 29, 1944 · Poland
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
  Nov 7, 1940 · United States
• German bombing of Rotterdam
  May 14, 1940 · Netherlands
• Occupation of the Baltic states
  1940–1991 · Lithuania
• Bombing of Berlin in World War II
  Jun 7, 1940–Apr 21, 1945 · Germany
• Battle of Taranto
  Nov 11, 1940–Nov 12, 1940 · Italy
• Coventry Blitz
  1940–1942 · United Kingdom
• Le Paradis massacre
  May 27, 1940 · France
• Sorge case
  1940s · —
• Three Alls policy
  1940–1941 · Mongolia
• Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
  1940–1956 · Estonia
• Pakistan Movement
  Mar 23, 1940–Aug 14, 1947 · India
• Wormhoudt massacre
  May 28, 1940 · France
• Mechelen incident
  Jan 10, 1940 · Belgium
• Waldemar Hoven
  Jan 1, 1940–Sep 12, 1943 · Germany
• Sōshi-kaimei
  Feb 11, 1940–Aug 15, 1945 · —
• 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
  Sep 29, 1940 · Australia
• 1940 British war cabinet crisis
  1940 · —
• Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II
  Jan 1, 1940–Jan 1, 1945 · Switzerland
• Altmark incident
  Feb 16, 1940 · Norway
• British occupation of the Faroe Islands
  Apr 13, 1940–May 13, 1945 · Faroe Islands
• 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
  Dec 20, 1940–Dec 15, 1944 · Russian Federation
• Aktion AB
  Jul 1, 1940 · Poland
• Battle of Zeeland
  May 10, 1940–May 18, 1940 · Netherlands
• Second Great Fire of London
  Dec 29, 1940–Dec 30, 1940 · United Kingdom
• Ningbo plague attack
  Oct 27, 1940 · China
• Anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe
  1940s–1960s · Poland
• Battle of Graveney Marsh
  Sep 27, 1940 · United Kingdom
• Bombing of Milan in World War II
  Aug 13, 1940–Apr 13, 1945 · Italy
• Patria disaster
  Nov 25, 1940 · Israel
• 1940 Canberra air disaster
  Aug 13, 1940 · Australia
• Bombing of Nuremberg in World War II
  Aug 27, 1940–Apr 11, 1945 · Germany
• Bombing of Frankfurt in World War II
  Jan 1, 1940 · Germany
• Bombing of Stuttgart in World War II
  Aug 25, 1940–Apr 19, 1945 · Germany
• Ajikawaguchi station rail accident
  Jan 29, 1940 · Japan
• Estonian partisans
  Aug 6, 1940 · Estonia
• Bombing of Freiburg on 10 May 1940
  May 10, 1940 · Germany
• Bombing of Naples in World War II
  1940–1944 · Italy
• Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II
  Sep 9, 1940 · Israel
• Operation Spark (1941)
  1940 · Russian Federation
• Paul Nitsche
  Jan 1, 1940–Jan 1, 1945 · —
• Manchester Blitz
  1940–1944 · United Kingdom
• Rhythm Club fire
  Apr 23, 1940 · United States
• Vinkt massacre
  May 1940 · Belgium
• Bristol Blitz
  1940–1941 · United Kingdom
• 1940–1942 Red Army purges
  Oct 1940–Feb 23, 1942 · —
• Hans Vollenweider
  Jun 1, 1940 · Switzerland
• Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania
  Jun 14, 1940 · —
• Abbeville massacre
  May 20, 1940 · France
• Chasselay massacre
  Jun 20, 1940 · France
• Kaleva (airplane)
  Jun 14, 1940 · Estonia
• 1942 mass shellfish poisoning at Lake Hamana
  1940s · Japan
• Jilava massacre
  Nov 26, 1940–Nov 27, 1940 · Romania
• 1940 Lima earthquake
  May 24, 1940 · Peru
• Masļenki border incident
  Jun 15, 1940 · Russian Federation
• Bombing of Bahrain in World War II
  Oct 19, 1940 · Bahrain
• South Pasadena Junior High School shooting
  May 6, 1940 · United States
• Bombing of Genoa in World War II
  Jun 1940–Mar 1945 · Italy
• Semarang Incident
  1940s · Indonesia
• Paul Hermann Feustel
  Jan 1, 1940–May 7, 1945 · Czechia
• Bombing of Turin in World War II
  Jun 1940–Apr 1945 · Italy
• Bombing of Palermo in World War II
  Jun 1, 1940 · Italy
• Oil soldiers
  Jan 1, 1940 · Switzerland
• 1940 Vrancea earthquake
  Nov 10, 1940 · Romania
• Norwich Blitz
  1940–1942 · United Kingdom
• 1940 El Centro earthquake
  May 18, 1940 · United States
• Sinking of the SS City of Benares
  Sep 17, 1940 · Iceland
• Cardiff Blitz
  1940–1944 · United Kingdom
• Ip massacre
  Sep 14, 1940 · Romania
• Eleanor Jarman
  Aug 8, 1940 · —
• Bombing of Middelburg
  May 17, 1940 · Netherlands
• Asama Maru Incident
  Jan 21, 1940 · Kiribati
• Wakamatsumachi junior high school rowing club distress accident
  Mar 16, 1940 · Japan
• Doodlebug disaster
  Jul 31, 1940 · United States
• Bombing of Livorno in World War II
  Jan 1, 1940 · Italy
• Nanshitou massacre
  1940s · China
• Bombing of Amsterdam
  May 11, 1940 · Netherlands
• Easter Pogrom
  Mar 30, 1940 · Poland
• Dorohoi pogrom
  Jul 1, 1940 · Romania
• 1940 Shakotan earthquake
  Aug 2, 1940 · Japan
• Bois d'Eraine massacre
  Jun 11, 1940 · France
• Treznea massacre
  Sep 9, 1940 · Romania
• Barrow Blitz
  Sep 1940–Jan 1942 · United Kingdom
• Lovettsville air disaster
  Aug 31, 1940 · United States
• Yonesaka Line avalanche accident
  Mar 5, 1940 · Japan
• Bombing of Chemnitz in World War II
  Aug 17, 1940–Apr 11, 1945 · Germany
• Cox incident
  Jul 1940 · —
• Japan Airways Aso-go emergency landing
  Feb 5, 1940 · Japan
• Battle of Hucisko
  Mar 30, 1940 · Poland
• Psilander affair
  Jun 20, 1940 · Faroe Islands
• Bombing of Marseille (1940)
  Jun 21, 1940 · France
• Forced Hospitalization at Honmyōji
  Jul 9, 1940 · Japan
• Czortków uprising
  Jan 21, 1940–Jan 22, 1940 · Ukraine
• 1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash
  Nov 8, 1940 · Germany
• Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
  1940s · Cambodia