939
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 900s 910s 920s – 930s – 940s 950s 960s |
| Years: | 936 937 938 – 939 – 940 941 942 |
| 939 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 939 CMXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1692 |
| Armenian calendar | 388 ԹՎ ՅՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5689 |
| Bengali calendar | 346 |
| Berber calendar | 1889 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1483 |
| Burmese calendar | 301 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6447–6448 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3635 or 3575 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3636 or 3576 |
| Coptic calendar | 655–656 |
| Discordian calendar | 2105 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 931–932 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4699–4700 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 995–996 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 861–862 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4040–4041 |
| Holocene calendar | 10939 |
| Iranian calendar | 317–318 |
| Islamic calendar | 327–328 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengyō 2 (天慶２年) |
| Julian calendar | 939 CMXXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3272 |
| Minguo calendar | 973 before ROC 民前973年 |
| Seleucid era | 1250/1251 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1481–1482 |
Year 939 (CMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- Vietnam, under the name Dai Co Viet, gains independence from China.
Europe
- Edmund I succeeds to the throne of England.
- The Arabs lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
- The Battle of Andernach: Otto I crushes the rebellion against his rule by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other princes opposed to his rule.
By topic
Religion
- July 8 – The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
- July 14 – Pope Stephen VIII succeeds Pope Leo VII as the 127th pope.
Births
- Emperor Romanos II of the Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Taizong of Song
Deaths
- July 13 – Pope Leo VII
- October 2 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
- October 27 – Æthelstan, King of the English
