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

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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) — to — 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
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Asia

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

[edit] 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

[edit] By topic

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

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

[edit] Deaths

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