This article is about the year 939. For the CPU socket, see Socket 939 Millennium: 1st millennium
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
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
939 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 939
CMXXXIX
Ab urbe condita 1692
Armenian calendar 388
ԹՎ ՅՁԸ
Bahá'í calendar -905 – -904
Bengali calendar 346
Berber calendar 1889
Buddhist calendar 1483
Burmese calendar 301
Byzantine calendar 6447 – 6448
Chinese calendar 戊戌年十二月初八日
(3575/3635-12-8) 己亥年十一月十八日
(3576/3636-11-18)
Coptic calendar 655 – 656
Ethiopian calendar 931 – 932
Hebrew calendar 4699 – 4700
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 994 – 995
 - Shaka Samvat 861 – 862
 - Kali Yuga 4040 – 4041
Holocene calendar 10939
Iranian calendar 317 – 318
Islamic calendar 327 – 328
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3272
Thai solar calendar 1482

Events

By place

Asia

• Vietnam, under the name Dai Co Viet, gains independence from China.

Europe

• Edmund I of England succeeds to the throne of England.
• The Arabs lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
• The Battle of Andernach; Otto crushes rebellion

By topic

Religion

• July 8 – The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
• July 14—Pope Stephen VIII (sometimes referred to as Stephen IX) succeeds Pope Leo VII as the 127th pope.

Births

• Emperor Romanus II of the Byzantine Empire
• Emperor Taizong of Song

Deaths

• July 13—Pope Leo VII
• October 2—Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
• October 27—King Athelstan of England