1339

Year 1339 (MCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century 14th century 15th century
Decades:	1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s
Years:	1336 1337 1338 1339 1340 1341 1342

1339 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1339 MCCCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2092
Armenian calendar	788 ԹՎ ՉՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6089
Balinese saka calendar	1260–1261
Bengali calendar	746
Berber calendar	2289
English Regnal year	12 Edw. 3 – 13 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1883
Burmese calendar	701
Byzantine calendar	6847–6848
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4036 or 3829     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4037 or 3830
Coptic calendar	1055–1056
Discordian calendar	2505
Ethiopian calendar	1331–1332
Hebrew calendar	5099–5100
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1395–1396
- Shaka Samvat	1260–1261
- Kali Yuga	4439–4440
Holocene calendar	11339
Igbo calendar	339–340
Iranian calendar	717–718
Islamic calendar	739–740
Japanese calendar	Ryakuō 2 (暦応２年)
Javanese calendar	1251–1252
Julian calendar	1339 MCCCXXXIX
Korean calendar	3672
Minguo calendar	573 before ROC 民前573年
Nanakshahi calendar	−129
Thai solar calendar	1881–1882
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1465 or 1084 or 312     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1466 or 1085 or 313

Events

January–December

• June – Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg. ^[1]
• September 18 – Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
• September 24 (or 28)^[2] – Simone Boccanegra is elected, as the first Doge of Genoa.

Date unknown

• Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir, having defeated Kota Rani, Hindu queen regnant of Kashmir, in battle at Jayapur (modern Sumbal), asks her to marry him, but she commits suicide rather than do so; thus he takes over sole rule of Kashmir, beginning the Muslim Shah Mir Dynasty.
• All streets in the city of Florence are paved, the first European city in post-Roman times where this has happened.
• The Moscow Kremlin is first referred to as a kremlin.

Births

• July 23 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)
• November 1 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)
• date unknown:
  • Pope Alexander V, Antipope (d. 1410)^[3]
  • Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359)^[4]
  • Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
  • Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)
  • John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399)^[5]
  • Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
  • Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)

Deaths

Emperor Go-Daigo

• February 17 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)^[6]
• May 26 – Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland (b. c. 1309)
• August 16 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)^[7]
• August 25 – Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (b. 1260)
• September 1 – Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1305)
• September 19 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)^[8]
• October 29 – Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (b. 1301)

References

1. The European Magazine, and London Review. Philological Society of London. 1822. pp. 429–.
2. Malleson, George Bruce (1875). Studies from Genoese History. Longmans, Green, and Company. pp. 336.
3. "Alexander (V) | antipope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
4. Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index. Collier. 1958. p. 337.
5. Tuck, Anthony (1986). Crown and nobility, 1272-1461. Blackwell. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-631-14826-5.
6. Charles IV (February 2001). Nagy, Balázs; Schaer, Frank (eds.). Karoli IV Imperatoris Romanorum Vita Ab Eo Ipso Conscripta et Hystoria Nova De Sancto Wenceslao Martyre [Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and his Legend of St. Wenceslas]. Central European Medieval Texts. Vol. 2. Translated by Knoll, Paul W.; Schaer, Frank. Introduction by Ferdinand Seibt (Bilingual ed.). Central European University Press. p. 104. doi:10.7829/j.ctv280b75d. ISBN 978-963-9116-32-0. ISSN 1419-7782. JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctv280b75d.
7. Kaplan, Stuart R. (1985). The encyclopedia of tarot. U.S. Games Systems. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-913866-36-8.
8. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (May 1, 2008). Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. p. 772. ISBN 978-1-59339-492-9.