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| 1940 |
| | | After his London studio is bombed, Henry Moore moves to Much Hadham, where he works and lives for the rest of his life | |
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| 1940 |
| | | In To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson discusses the development of socialism and revolution, culminating in Lenin and Trotsky | |
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| 1940 |
| | | US choreographer Agnes de Mille creates Black Ritual for American Ballet Theatre | |
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| 1940 |
| | | William Joyce, broadcasting in English from Germany, becomes notorious in Britain as Lord Haw-Haw | |
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| 1940 January 8 |
| | | The ration book is introduced in Britain, at first just for bacon, butter and sugar, but soon also for meat, eggs, tea, milk, cheese, jam, and clothing | |
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| 1940 February 16 |
| | | 303 captured merchant seamen are rescued in a daring British raid on the German supply ship Altmark, in use as a floating prison in a Norwegian fjord | |
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| 1940 March 12 |
| | | The Treaty of Moscow ends the war between the USSR and Finland, after 200,000 Soviet deaths in the three months of hostilities | |
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| 1940 from April 4 |
| | | More than 4000 Polish officers are massacred at Katyń on Stalin's orders | |
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| 1940 April 5 |
| | | Inactivity during the Phoney War prompts Neville Chamberlain to assure the House of Commons that Hitler has 'missed the bus' | |
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| 1940 April 9 |
| | | German ships and marines occupy the harbours of neutral Denmark and Norway | |
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