1339
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{{C14 year in topic}}Year 1339 (MCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
= January–December =
- June – Battle of Laupen: The Canton of Bern defeats the forces of Fribourg.{{cite book|title=The European Magazine, and London Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA429|year=1822|publisher=Philological Society of London|pages=429–}}
- September 18 – Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.
- September 24 (or 28){{cite book|first1=George Bruce |last1=Malleson|title=Studies from Genoese History|url=https://archive.org/details/studiesfromgeno01mallgoog|year=1875|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/studiesfromgeno01mallgoog/page/n13 336]}} – 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){{cite web |title=Alexander (V) {{!}} antipope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-V |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 July 2018 |language=en}}
- Erik Magnusson, king of parts of Sweden 1356–1359 (d. 1359){{cite book|title=Collier's Encyclopedia: With Bibliography and Index|url=https://archive.org/details/colliersencyclop09font|url-access=registration|year=1958|publisher=Collier|page=[https://archive.org/details/colliersencyclop09font/page/337 337]}}
- Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (d. 1393)
- Pope Innocent VII (d. 1406)
- John IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1399){{cite book|title=Crown and nobility, 1272-1461|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJ1QAQAAIAAJ|year=1986|isbn=978-0-631-14826-5|page=333| last1=Tuck | first1=Anthony | publisher=Blackwell }}
- Juana Manuel of Castile, queen consort of Castile (d. 1381)
- Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, Persian Arab encyclopaedist (d. 1414)
Deaths
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- February 17 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
{{cite book
|title=Karoli IV Imperatoris Romanorum Vita Ab Eo Ipso Conscripta et Hystoria Nova De Sancto Wenceslao Martyre
|trans-title=Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and his Legend of St. Wenceslas
|author1=Charles IV
|authorlink1=Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
|editor1-first=Balázs
|editor1-last= Nagy
|editor2-first=Frank
|editor2-last=Schaer
|others=Introduction by Ferdinand Seibt
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgdoAAAAMAAJ
|date=February 2001
|publisher=Central European University Press
|edition=Bilingual
|isbn=978-963-9116-32-0
|page=104
|doi=10.7829/j.ctv280b75d
|jstor=10.7829/j.ctv280b75d
|translator1-first=Paul W.
|translator1-last=Knoll
|translator2-first=Frank
|translator2-last=Schaer
|series=Central European Medieval Texts
|volume=2
|issn=1419-7782
}}
- May 26 – Aldona Ona, Queen of Poland (b. c. 1309)
- August 16 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302){{cite book|first1=Stuart R. |last1=Kaplan|title=The encyclopedia of tarot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UV_WAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=U.S. Games Systems|isbn=978-0-913866-36-8|page=59}}
- 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){{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA772|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-492-9|pages=772}}
- October 29 – Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (b. 1301)