1439
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This article is about the year 1439. For the number, see 1439 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s |
| Years: | 1436 1437 1438 – 1439 – 1440 1441 1442 |
| 1439 by topic |
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| Architecture - Art |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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| Art and literature |
| 1439 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1439 MCDXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2192 |
| Armenian calendar | 888 ԹՎ ՊՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6189 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −405 – −404 |
| Bengali calendar | 846 |
| Berber calendar | 2389 |
| English Regnal year | 17 Hen. 6 – 18 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1983 |
| Burmese calendar | 801 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6947–6948 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4135 or 4075 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4136 or 4076 |
| Coptic calendar | 1155–1156 |
| Discordian calendar | 2605 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1431–1432 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5199–5200 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1495–1496 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1361–1362 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4540–4541 |
| Holocene calendar | 11439 |
| Igbo calendar | 439–440 |
| Iranian calendar | 817–818 |
| Islamic calendar | 842–843 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyō 11 (永享１１年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 1439 MCDXXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3772 |
| Minguo calendar | 473 before ROC 民前473年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1982 |
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Miracle of the Moose (modern fresco in Pechersky Ascension Monastery).
Year 1439 (MCDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- May 4 – Battle of Grotnik: The Hussite movement is defeated in Poland.
- June 29 – supposed date of Venerable Macarius' Miracle of the Moose, according to Russian hagiographers.
- September 8 – Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi captures Foligno, ending Trinci's signoria.
- September 29 or October 1 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway is declared deposed in Sweden. Karl Knutsson Bonde continues to serve as Regent of Sweden.
- November 12 – In England, Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
Date unknown
- Johannes Gutenberg develops printing with movable type at Mainz at about this date.
- The Great Ordinance is adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure grants the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishes the taxation measure known as the taille in support of a standing army.
- Council of Florence is moved to Florence.
- At the Portuguese Cortes, Peter, Duke of Coimbra is appointed Regent of the Kingdom.
Births
- May 9 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
- July 26 – Sigismund of Bavaria (d. 1501)
- date unknown – Hua Sui, Chinese inventor and printer (d. 1513)
Deaths
- April 30 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b.1382)
- May 5 – Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman (in battle; b. 1398)
- June 24 – Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
- October 20 – Ambrose the Camaldulian, Italian theologian
- October 27 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
- date unknown – Pietro Loredan, Italian nobleman and admiral
References
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