title: 1940 in Bulgaria
text: # 1940 in Bulgaria
  
  Events in the year 1940 in Bulgaria.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Boris III
  * Prime Minister – Georgi Kyoseivanov until 16 February; then Bogdan Filov
  
  ## Events
  
  * 7 September – Bulgaria regained control of Southern Dobruja under the Treaty of Craiova.
  * 14 December – Shipwreck of the Salvador, a ship carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine, in the Sea of Marmara. 230 of the 326 passengers died in the wreck.
  * 24 December – The Law for the Protection of the Nation, an anti-Jewish racial law which included banning Jews from having Bulgarian citizenship, was ratified.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 2 July – Georgi Ivan Ivanov, first Bulgarian in space.
  * 8 December – Alexander Yossifov, composer and conductor.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 23 March - Dimitar Stanchov, 15th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1863)
  * 10 September - Nikola Ivanov, Bulgarian general (b. 1861)
  * 23 December – Mariyka Popova, actress.
  