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Year 939 (CMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

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

    • Europe

  • Edmund I succeeds to the throne of England.
  • The Arabs lose Madrid to the Kingdom of Leon.
  • The Battle of Andernach: Otto I crushes the rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other princes opposed to his rule.

    • Religion

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

    • Births

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

    • Deaths

  • July 13 – Pope Leo VII
  • October 2 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
  • October 27 – Æthelstan, King of the English
  • Empress Li Chunyan

    • References

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