1439

This article is about the year 1439. For the number, see 1439 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1436 1437 1438 – 1439 – 1440 1441 1442

1439 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1439 in poetry

1439 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1439 MCDXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2192
Armenian calendar	888 ԹՎ ՊՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6189
Bengali calendar	846
Berber calendar	2389
English Regnal year	17 Hen. 6 – 18 Hen. 6
Buddhist calendar	1983
Burmese calendar	801
Byzantine calendar	6947–6948
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4135 or 4075     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4136 or 4076
Coptic calendar	1155–1156
Discordian calendar	2605
Ethiopian calendar	1431–1432
Hebrew calendar	5199–5200
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1495–1496
- Shaka Samvat	1361–1362
- Kali Yuga	4540–4541
Holocene calendar	11439
Igbo calendar	439–440
Iranian calendar	817–818
Islamic calendar	842–843
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 11 (永享１１年)
Julian calendar	1439 MCDXXXIX
Korean calendar	3772
Minguo calendar	473 before ROC 民前473年
Thai solar calendar	1981–1982

File:Macarius - Miracle of the Moose - fresco.JPG

Miracle of the Moose (modern fresco in Pechersky Ascension Monastery).

Year 1439 (MCDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• May 4 – Battle of Grotnik: The Hussite movement is defeated in Poland.
• June 29 – supposed date of Venerable Macarius' Miracle of the Moose, according to Russian hagiographers.
• September 8 – Cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi captures Foligno, ending Trinci's signoria.
• September 29 or October 1 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway is declared deposed in Sweden. Karl Knutsson Bonde continues to serve as Regent of Sweden.
• November 12 – In England, Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

Date unknown

• Johannes Gutenberg develops printing with movable type at Mainz at about this date.
• The Great Ordinance is adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure grants the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishes the taxation measure known as the taille in support of a standing army.
• Council of Florence is moved to Florence.
• At the Portuguese Cortes, Peter, Duke of Coimbra is appointed Regent of the Kingdom.

Births

• May 9 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
• July 26 – Sigismund of Bavaria (d. 1501)
• date unknown – Hua Sui, Chinese inventor and printer (d. 1513)

Deaths

• April 30 – Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b.1382)
• May 5 – Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman (in battle; b. 1398)
• June 24 – Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
• October 20 – Ambrose the Camaldulian, Italian theologian
• October 27 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)